Racial and ethnic politics in California. /
editors - Byran O. Jackson and Michael B. Preston,
- Berkeley, CA : IGS Press, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 2001.
- xxix,514p.: ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Vol. 2. edited by Michael B. Preston, Bruce E. Cain, and Sandra Bass. Vol. 3 edited by Sandra Bass and Bruce E. Cain. Vol. 2. includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents : Ethnic and racial politics in California: an overview -- When numbers do not add up: Asian pacific Americans and California politics -- Beyond numbers: Asian American and Latino politics in Los Angeles' San Gabriel Valley -- At rainbow's end: empowerment prospects for Latinos and Asian pacific Americans in Los Angeles -- Jewish participation in California politics:A revisit in the 1990s -- The Member's speaker:How Willie Brown held center stage in California,1980-1985 -- The Symbolic politics of affirmative action -- Race and party politics in the 1996 U.S presidential election -- California's ethnic experiment and the unsolvable immigration issue:proposition 187 and beyond -- Nativisom, partisanship and immigration:an analysis of prop 187 -- Race, crime and public policy in California -- Blacks, browns and the blues: the police and minority communities in California -- Minority political incorporation in Los Angeles:a broader consideration -- Latino politics in the golden state: ready for the 21st century? -- Latino politics in California: the necessary condition for success -- The Politicization of race and ethnicity in the nineties -- Index.
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