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| Geron's four pathways to incorporation |
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1. Demand/Protest
2. Nonconfrontational political evolution
3. legal challenges to structural barriers
4. coalition politics |
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| Easton's definition of politics |
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| itative allocation of values in a society |
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| Components of Eastons political system |
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1.the environment or context in which politics operate
2.the inputs of the system
3.the conversion of inputs into outputs
4.the outputs (that is the decisions into policies)
5.outputs and feedback that reflects the effect of political decisions |
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| represents the conditions, statuses, and experiences that Latinos share with other latino subgroups |
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| where individuals are linked closely based on their participation in a common system |
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| refers to political arguments that focus upon the self interest and perspectives of social minorities, or self-identified social interest groups |
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1. All groups have some degree of resources
2. Grievances are assumed to be recognized and acted upon
3.Any organized group can influence government
4. Leaders are not elite but representive of groups
5. There is political apathy but if people really want to participate they can |
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| A has a power over B to the extent he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do |
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1. power is exercised in the decision making process
who gets what, when and how? And who gets left out
2. whoever decides what the game is about, decides who gets to play
3. B wants change A has stacked the deck against Bs ability to change
all about agenda setting* |
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| variables in assimilation |
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| group size, regional concentration, residential segregation, long-time residency, return to homeland difficult |
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| similar rates of registration and voting and similar ratios and levels of office-holding |
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| was the 19th century American belief that the United States (often in the ethnically specific form of the "Anglo-Saxon race") was destined to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean |
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| What happened to the Mexicans in US territory |
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| Either went south of the border, retained their Mexican citizenship and were granted permanent alien status, or if they did not choose were assumed to desire to become US citizens |
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| was an important decision of the United States Supreme Court with regard to voting rights and, by extension, racial desegregation. It overturned the Democratic Party's use of all-white primaries in Texas, and other states where the party used the rule. |
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League of Latin American Citizens
fought for anti-discrimination
limited to hispanics |
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| provided most immigrants with a connection to their mother country and served to bring them together to meet their survival needs in a new and alien country. Cultural activities, education, health care, insurance coverage, legal protection and advocacy before police and immigration authorities, and anti-defamation activities were the main functions of these associations. |
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| Guaranteed benefits and protections for workers, including free housing,medical treatment, prohibition of dual wage structure, and communication in Spanish |
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| players in the chicano movement |
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| Farm Workers Union, Alianza, Crusade for Justice, La Raza Unida |
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| Problems with the Chicano movement |
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1.Too much focus on racism as cause of Chicano’s problems
2. Assertive rhetoric not matched with conventional reformist demands
3. Disjointed leadership
4. Too much focus on one charismatic leader (e.g., Tijerina, Gonzales)
5. Resources inadequate |
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Why socioeconomic characteristics of the Hispanic people are an extremely important aspect of the environment in which
Hispanic politics takes place |
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1. the socioeconomic status of a group is strongly related the political resources the group possesses
2. shapes the goals of Hispanic politics
3.they affect the strategies hispanics use to influence political decision makers
4.they can affect the unity or disunity of a group |
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| 4 stages of issue careers |
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Initiation
Specification
Expansion
Entrance |
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| the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family |
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| the exchange of cultural features that results when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct. |
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| the grouping together, and collective labeling, of various independently dinstinguishable, self-identified and self-sustained ethnicities into one all-encompassing group of people. |
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| a movement in Christian theology which interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of a liberation from unjust economic, political, or social conditions |
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| a concept that measures the extent to which a group, particularly a minority or immigrant group, has integrated itself into a political structure |
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| 5 diff ways of analyzing political incorporation |
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1. voting
2. Representation
3. Coalitions
4. Outcomes
5. Official Support |
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false conciousness
• A has power over B by getting B to do what A wants wants him to do and by shaping, influencing or determining what B wants. |
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| the Puertorican and latino lobbying task-force in Albany (?) |
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| he became a symbol for Cuba's bid for independence against Spain in the 19th century, and is referred to as the "Apostle of Cuban Independence.[1]" He also fought against the threat of United States expansionism into Cuba. |
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| y the late 1960s, Crystal City would become the location of continued activism in the civil rights movement among its Mexican-American majority population, and the birthplace of the third party political movement known as La Raza Unida Party |
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| a Mexican-American journalist killed by a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy during the National Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War on August 29, 1970 |
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| in modern Puerto Rican culture have a more positive connotation, associated with a cultural ideology as pioneers of Puerto Rico |
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a leader in the United States labor movement and a social activist. She unionized workers, led strikes, wrote pamphlets in English and Spanish, and convened the 1939 the "first national Latino civil rights assembly
deported as part of operation wetback |
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| gave puerto ricans US citizenship |
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| He convened the first-ever Chicano youth conference in March 1969, which was attended by many future Chicano activists and artists. |
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| led a struggle in the 1960s and 1970s to restore New Mexican land grants to the descendants of their Spanish colonial and Mexican owners |
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| 5 factors that characterize Cuban Political Power |
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1.ethnic mobilization
2.ideological consistency
3.incorporation in the republican party
4. Cuban American National Foundation
5. Media |
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