Immigration / edited by Ilan Stavans.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Stavans, Ilan
Other title:Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature.
Format: Book
Language:English
Donor:Lebowitz copy gift of Brian E. Lebowitz.
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
Series:Ilan Stavans library of Latino civilization.
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Table of Contents:
  • Series foreword / Ilan Stavants
  • Preface
  • 1. Considerations
  • The baby bust : Who will do the work? Who will pay the taxes? / Rodolfo O. de la Garza
  • Proposition 187 : misrepresenting immigrants and immigration / Otto Santa Ana
  • Face the nation : race, immigration, and the rise of nativism in late-twentieth-century America / George J. Sánchez
  • Do home-country political ties limit Latino immigrant pursuit of U.S. civic engagement and citizenship? / Louis DeSipio
  • Theses on the Latino bloc : a critical perspective / Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita
  • pt. 2. Voices
  • The coyote and the chicken / Luis Alberto Urrea
  • A soccer season in southwest Kansas / Sam Quinones
  • Gladys : an immigrant story / Ilan Stavans
  • "Headed north" and "The runner" / Ramón "Tianguis" Pérez
  • Conversations with Ilan Stavans / Rubén Martínez
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index
  • About the editor and contributors.