ABSTRACT Based on a longitudinal survey of 1,400 Mexican Americans and 70 in-depth interviews, Telles and Sue examine the ethnic and national identity of third-generation-plus Mexican Americans. The book is a direct response to recent highly publicized nativist anxiety about an unassimilated Mexican presence in the United States. What Telles and Sue find is a largely working class ethnic-racial population that espouses a dual identity as Mexican and American, retains and favours bilingualism, generally marries within the group, and more often than not distinguishes itself from Mexican immigrants. Telles and Sue explain such persistence over generations through the concept of a self-sustaining “Mexican American ethnic core” that has been maintained through racial exclusion. Although a majority of Mexican Americans continue to live in visible ethnoracial enclaves, they identify as American and pose no political or cultural threat to the country.

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为什么墨西哥裔美国人没有消失或消失？

摘要 基于对 1,400 名墨西哥裔美国人的纵向调查和 70 次深度访谈，Telles 和 Sue 研究了第三代以上墨西哥裔美国人的种族和民族认同。这本书是对最近广为宣传的本土主义者对美国未同化的墨西哥存在的焦虑的直接回应。Telles 和 Sue 发现，主要是工人阶级的族裔种族人口，他们拥护墨西哥人和美国人的双重身份，保留并偏爱双语，通常在群体内通婚，并且往往将自己与墨西哥移民区分开来。Telles 和 Sue 通过通过种族排斥而维持的自我维持的“墨西哥裔美国人种族核心”的概念来解释这种世代相传的坚持。