This revised, second edition of The Chicano Experience offers a new interpretation of the social, cultural, and economic forces that shape the situation of Chicanos today.

For more than thirty years, and now in its ninth printing, Alfredo Mirande's The Chicano Experience has captivated readers with its groundbreaking analysis of Chicanos in the United States. Although its original context differs markedly from the current demographic landscape, it remains no less relevant today-Latinos have emerged as the largest minority population in the United States. With updated chapters revised in light of contemporary scholarship, this second edition speaks to the Chicano of today, in addition to puertoriquenos, Central Americans, and other groups who share common experiences of colonization, racialization, and, especially in the last decade, demonization.

In this foundational text, Mirande develops a comprehensive framework for Chicano sociology that, in attending closely to Chicano experience, aims to correct the biases and misconceptions that have prevailed in the field. He demonstrates how the conventional immigrant group model of society, with its focus on assimilation into mainstream American culture, does not apply to Chicanos. Supporting this constructive proposal are analyses of Chicano social history and culture, with chapters focusing on the economy, the border, law, education, family, gender and machismo, and religion. The book concludes with a case study of community attitudes toward the police in an urban barrio. In many ways, the first edition of The Chicano Experience anticipated the sensitivity to the experiences of the underrepresented in American culture. This second edition reaffirms the prescience of Mirande's work and makes it available to a new generation of students and scholars of Chicano and Latino studies, ethnic and race studies, sociology, and cultural studies.

About the Author

Alfredo Mirande is professor of sociology and ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Gringo Justice (1994), The Stanford Law Chronicles (2005), and Jalos, USA (2014), all published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Reviews

"Filled with the latest research and current theorizing on racialization, the new edition of The Chicano Experience rises to the top rank of books about Chicanos and other Latinos in the twenty-first century." -Maxine Baca Zinn, co-author of Diversity in Families

"The Chicano Experience is a strident call for a complete revamping of all social science methodology in the field of Chicano politics." -Benjamin Marquez, author of The Politics of Patronage

"Alfredo Mirande's The Chicano Experience is the 1985 landmark study devoted to the creation of Chicano sociology. The updated version will shape the dialogue for future generations." -Robert J. Duran, author of The Gang Paradox

"The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective . . . offers fundamental sociological perspectives of the lives of the largest minority group in the United States. This edition provides a new interpretation of social, cultural, and economic drivers that shape Chicano/Latino lives today. -UC Riverside News

Book Information
ISBN 9780268202859
Author Alfredo Mirande
Format Paperback
Page Count 277
Imprint University of Notre Dame Press
Publisher University of Notre Dame Press
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm