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oapen-20.500.12657-317202021-04-30T10:15:49Z The Roots of Latino Urban Agency Rosales, Rodolfo Navarro, Sharon Political Science Latino Los Angeles Miami Race and ethnicity in the United States Census San Antonio San Francisco bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government The 2010 U.S. Census data showed that over the last decade the Latino population grew from 35.3 million to 50.5 million, accounting for more than half of the nation's population growth. This book collects essays that examine this phenomenal growth. In order to understand the Latino community in all its diversity, the analysis has to begin at the grassroots level. The political future of the Latino community in the United States in the twenty-first century will be largely determined by the various roles they have played in the major urban centers across the nation. These essays collectively suggest that political agency can encompass everything from voting, lobbying, networking, grassroots organizing, and mobilization, to dramatic protest. Latinos are in fact gaining access to the same political institutions that worked so hard to marginalize them. 2017-03-16 23:55 2019-11-26 16:34:18 2020-04-01T13:47:11Z 2020-04-01T13:47:11Z 2013 book 625672 OCN: 863158297 9781574415421 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31720 eng Al Filo, Mexican American Studies Series application/pdf n/a 625672.pdf University of North Texas Press 10.26530/oapen_625672 100036 10.26530/oapen_625672 da87c8b8-d41f-4653-b168-080688995f85 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781574415421 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Denton, Texas, USA 100036 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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The 2010 U.S. Census data showed that over the last decade the Latino population grew from 35.3 million to 50.5 million, accounting for more than half of the nation's population growth. This book collects essays that examine this phenomenal growth. In order to understand the Latino community in all its diversity, the analysis has to begin at the grassroots level. The political future of the Latino community in the United States in the twenty-first century will be largely determined by the various roles they have played in the major urban centers across the nation. These essays collectively suggest that political agency can encompass everything from voting, lobbying, networking, grassroots organizing, and mobilization, to dramatic protest. Latinos are in fact gaining access to the same political institutions that worked so hard to marginalize them.
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