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Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb
Contributor(s): Saito, Leland T. (Author), Daniels, Roger (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0252067207     ISBN-13: 9780252067204
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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Published: July 1998
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Annotation: California's San Gabriel Valley has been called an incubator for ethnic politics. Located a mere fifteen minutes from Los Angeles, the valley is a brave new world of multiethnic complexity.

Here Latinos and Asian Americans are the dominant groups, rather than the minorities they are elsewhere in the United States. Politics are Latino-dominated, while a large infusion of Chinese immigrants and capital has made the San Gabriel Valley the center of the nation's largest Chinese ethnic economy. The white population has dropped from an overwhelming majority in 1970 to a minority in 1990.

Leland T. Saito presents an insider's view of the political, economic, and cultural implications of this ethnic mix. He examines how diverse residents of the region have worked to overcome their initial antagonisms and develop new, more effective political alliances.

By tracing grass-roots political organization along racial and ethnic lines, Race and Politics focuses on the construction of new identities, especially the panethnic affiliation "Asian American".

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies
- Social Science | Minority Studies
- Political Science | American Government - State
Dewey: 305.800
LCCN: 97045435
Series: Asian American Experience (University of Illinois)
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.04" W x 8.97" (0.92 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Cultural Region - West Coast
- Ethnic Orientation - Latino
- Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural
- Geographic Orientation - California
 
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Located a mere fifteen minutes from Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley is an incubator for California's new ethnic politics. Here, Latinos and Asian Americans are the dominant groups. Politics are Latino-dominated, while a large infusion of Chinese immigrants and capital has made the San Gabriel Valley the center of the nation's largest Chinese ethnic economy. The white population, meanwhile, has dropped from an overwhelming majority in 1970 to a minority in 1990.

Leland T. Saito presents an insider's view of the political, economic, and cultural implications of this ethnic mix. He examines how diverse residents of the region have worked to overcome their initial antagonisms and develop new, more effective political alliances.

Tracing grassroots political organization along racial and ethnic lines, Race and Politics focuses on the construction of new identities in general and the panethnic affiliation "Asian American" in particular.