Latino Professionals in America: Testimonios of Policy, Perseverance, and Success

This book combines in-depth qualitative interviews, auto-ethnographic accounts, and policy analysis to explore the intersecting oppressions that make it difficult for Latinos to become professionals, and then see themselves successful in those professions. Their stories and the author's analysis paint a hopeful, yet realistic picture of what wor

Author: Maria Chávez
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/09/2019
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780367203191

About the Author

Maria Chávez is Associate Professor of Political Science at Pacific Lutheran University. She is author of Everyday Injustice: Latino Professionals and Racism (Rowman & Littlefield 2011), lead author of Living the Dream: New Immigration Policies and the Lives of Undocumented Latino Youth (Paradigm 2015), and co-editor of Latinos in the United States: Racialization, Discrimination and Resistance (Routledge, 2018). She teaches classes in public policy, American government, racial and ethnic politics, and Latino politics.