@article{1480272,
      recid = {1480272},
      author = {Vasquez-Tokos, Jessica, },
      title = {Mexican Americans Across Generations : Immigrant Families,  Racial Realities /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {While newly arrived immigrants are often the focus of  public concern and debate, many Mexican immigrants and  Mexican Americans have resided in the United States for  generations. Latinos are the largest and fastest-growing  ethnic group in the United States, and their racial  identities change with each generation. While the  attainment of education and middle class occupations  signals a decline in cultural attachment for some,  socioeconomic mobility is not a cultural death-knell, as  others are highly ethnically identified. There are a  variety of ways that middle class Mexican Americans relate  to their ethnic heritage, and racialization despite  assimilation among a segment of the second and third  generations reveals the continuing role of race even among  the U.S.-born. Mexican Americans Across Generations  investigates racial identity and assimilation in  three-generation Mexican American families living in  California. Through rich interviews with three generations  of middle class Mexican American families, Vasquez focuses  on the family as a key site for racial and gender identity  formation, knowledge transmission, and incorporation  processes, exploring how the racial identities of Mexican  Americans both change and persist generationally in  families. She illustrates how gender, physical appearance,  parental teaching, historical era and discrimination  influence Mexican Americans' racial identity and  incorporation patterns, ultimately arguing that neither  racial identity nor assimilation are straightforward  progressions but, instead, develop unevenly and are  influenced by family, society, and historical social  movements.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480272},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814788431.001.0001},
}