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Book SynopsisHow Latino communities are transforming the politics of race, migration and labour in the US.
Trade Review'A provocative book ... a timely intervention on Mexican American politics and labour'
-- Congressman Raul M. Grijalva
'This is a remarkable analysis of Latino politics and labour in this period of market-driven madness and unruly democracy ... a compelling critique of our political economy as well as offering us democratic alternatives'
-- Rodolfo F. Acuna, Professor Emeritus and Founder, Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Northridge and author of Occupied America (2014).
'Studies of Latino politics in the past have largely failed to locate their discussions in the context of the American capitalist political economy and the class divisions that it fosters and that shape so much of the country's political and cultural struggles. The Latino Question provides a pathbreaking and extraordinary account of contemporary Latino politics'
-- Mario Barrera, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley and author of Race and Class in the Southwest (1979).
'This is a necessary book in these political times. Well researched and clearly written it exposes the problems and possibilities emergent when engaging and understanding the intersection of Latino politics in the American context. Rich in description and analysis the authors offer a lasting reminder that there is much and overlooked diversity amongst, across and within the matrix political category whose shorthand has too often been reduced to the word 'Latino' '
-- Marcus Anthony Hunter, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, CHAIR, Department of African American Studies, UCLA
Table of ContentsFigures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
1. Mexican Mass Labour Migration in a Not-So-Changing Political Economy
2. Hegemony, War of Position and Workplace Democracy
3. Poverty in the Valley of Plenty: Mexican Families and Migrant Work in California
4. Racism, Capitalist Inequality, and the Cooperative Mode of Production
5. Working but Poor in the City of Milwaukee: Life Stories
6. Feasting on Latina/o Labour in Multicultural Los Angeles
7. After Latino Metropolis: Cultural Political Economy and Alternative Futures
Conclusion
Notes
Index
