Wedges and quakes: new landscapes for Latino politics in California

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Title:	Wedges and quakes: new landscapes for Latino politics in California
Author:	Gutierrez, Daniel M.
Description:	Despite being the largest minority in the U.S. the politics of Latinos remains an understudied and misunderstood phenomenon. While this dearth of knowledge can partially be attributed to neglect, when political scientists have taken an interest, they have too often relied upon ordinary circumstances and traditional thinking to classify the political identity and behavior of Latinos. When these conventional frames have fallen short, Latinos have either been cast-off as a defective version of the dominant typological exemplars, or worse, deemed as apolitical. To correct these deficiencies of scholarship, this study uses the wedge initiatives in California (Proposition 187; 209 and 227) to measure the political response of Latinos to a series of controversial political events in order to test the validity of traditional political identity frames in a contextual and contentious environment. In addition, the operating thesis of this work advances the notion of cultural citizenship as a viable and superior alternative to traditional group identity models and as a concept that successfully incorporates the unique experience of Latinos into its framework.
Permanent Link:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1101929313 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/7643
Date:	2004

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