From AwardAnnals
| Book: | Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority |
|---|
| Author: | Peter Skerry |
|---|
| Honors: |
|
|---|
| Genres: | |
|---|
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
|---|
What will become of the burgeoning numbers of Mexican American immigrants on American society? The answer, argues Peter Skerry, lies not so much with the social and economic progress of Mexican Americans as with the political institutions within which they define their interests—institutions radically changed from what greeted America’s last great influx of newcomers.