{"product_id":"9781439906101","title":"Crowding Out Latinos","description":"In this groundbreaking analysis, Marco Portales examines the way in which education and the media act as immobilizing social forces to shape the Latino world that exists despite the best efforts of many Mexican Americans and other Latinos. The delicate relationships between what Latinos are and what they seem to be, as perceived both by the larger society and by Latinos themselves, create and craft a culture that students of American culture have not sufficiently studied or understood.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As \u003ci\u003ebandidos\u003c\/i\u003e or gigolos, drug users or unwed mothers, Latinos continue to figure in the public consciousness primarily as undesirables. Despite decades of effort by Spanish-speaking Americans to improve their image in the United States, Mexican Americans and other resident Latinos are still largely perceived by other Americans as  poverty-stricken immigrants and second-class citizens. Accordingly, the great majority of Latino citizens receive substandard educations, equipping them for substandard jobs in substandard living environments.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The lives of Mexican Americans and other Latinos, Portales contends, can best be illuminated by looking at the history of Chicanos and particularly Chicano literature, which dramatizes the impact of education and the media on Latinos. Like Irish literature, Chicano literature has sought to articulate and to establish itself as a postcolonial voice that has struggles for national attention. Through psychological and sociopolitical representations, Chicano writers have variously used anger, indifference, fear, accommodation, and other conflicting emotions and attitudes to express how it feels to be seen as an immigrant or a foreigner in one's own country.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Portales looks at four Chicano literary works -- Americo Paredes' \u003ci\u003eGeorge Washington Gomez,\u003c\/i\u003e Anthony Quinn's \u003ci\u003eThe Original Sin\u003c\/i\u003e, Sandra Cisnero's \u003ci\u003eHouse on Mango Street\u003c\/i\u003e, and Ana Castillo's \u003ci\u003eMassacre of the Dreamers\u003c\/i\u003e -- to focus attention on social issues that impede the progress of Latinos. By doing so, he hopes to engage both Latino and non-Latino Americans in an overdue dialogue about the power of education and the media to form perceptions that can either empower or repress Latino citizens.","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163005141232,"sku":"9781439906101","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439906101_p0.jpg?v=1763757598","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439906101","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}