Latino Politics in the United States: Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in the Mexican American and Puerto Rican Experience explores and documents the way in which people of Latin American descent, specifically Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, lose their cultural identity and unique background, thus becoming classified and dominated in the United States system of race. This book provides case studies of how this process of classification, called racialization, occurs not only through a historical process, but also through the active participation of society's major social institutions. The efforts of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans to challenge the racialization process, to seek self-empowerment, and maintain their humanity are also described.

Features and Benefits
- Organization in topical chapters, and   references on the various topics, provides students the possibility of more in-depth research

- Vocabulary on CD-ROM provides students with a political language that describes and defines various aspects of the Latino experience of racialization

- QuickTime® movie of Vieques struggle provides a glimpse of the political movement that challenged colonialism and racialization in the island of Vieques