Land grants, housing, and political power / edited with an introduction by Antoinette Sedillo López.

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Other Authors: López, Antoinette Sedillo
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Garland Pub., 1995.
Series:Latinos in the United States ; v. 6.
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Table of Contents:
  • Fair housing and Latinos / Herminia L. Cubillos
  • The demise of "Jim Crow" / David Montejano
  • Housing price inequalities: a comparison of Anglos, Blacks, and Spanish-origin populations / Lauren K. Krivo
  • Housing segregation of a predominantly middle class population: residential patterns developed by the Cuban immigration into Miami, 1950-74 / Morton D. Winsberg
  • The Voting rights act and Hispanic political representation in the Southwest / John A. Garcia
  • A new remedy for an old ailment: cumulative voting as an alternative to the single member district in minority voting rights / Maurilio E. Vigil
  • Voting rights and the Constitution: the disenfranchisement of non-English speaking citizens / Sandra Guerra
  • An analysis of Chicano and Anglo electoral patterns in school board elections / John A. Garcia
  • Minority population proportion and Black and Hispanic congressional success in the 1970s and 1980s / Bernard Grofman and Lisa Handley
  • Ethnic officeholders in Los Angeles County / Fernando J. Guerra
  • Toward an understanding of the role of the mass media in Latino political life / Federico A. Subervi-Velez, Richard Herrera and Michael Begay
  • Gárza v. County of Los Angeles: preservation of minority group voting strength as justification for deviation from one person-one vote standard / Robert G. Retana
  • Case note addendum: Gárza v. County of Los Angeles / Robert G. Retana
  • The election of Hispanics in city government: an examination of the election of Federico Peña as mayor of Denver / Rodney Hero
  • A gender gap among Hispanics? a comparison with Blacks and Anglos / Susan Welch and Lee Sigelman
  • A longitudinal examination of political participation rates of Mexican American females / Susan A. MacManus, Charles S. Bullock III and Barbara P. Grothe
  • A comparison of Black and Mexican American voters in Denver: assertive versus acquiescent political orientations and voting behavior in an urban electorate / Nicholas P. Lovrich, Jr. and Otwin Marenin
  • Ethnicity and electoral choice: Mexican American voting behavior in the California 30th congressional district / Bruce E. Cain and D. Roderick Kiewiet
  • Hispanics gain seats in the 98th Congress after reapportionment / Maurilio E. Vigil
  • Land policy in the Spanish Southwest, 1846-1891: a study in contrasts / Howard R. Lamar
  • Land, water, and ethnic identity in Taos / Sylvia Rodríguez.