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Immigrant politics and the public library

Title: Immigrant politics and the public library / edited by Susan Luévano-Molina.
Publication: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Luévano-Molina, Susan.

Description

x, 197 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Contributions in librarianship and information science, 0084-9243 ; no. 97

Uniform Title

Contributions in librarianship and information science ; no. 97.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Contents

1. Introduction: New Immigrants, Neo-Nativism, and the Public Library / Susan Luevano-Molina -- 2. The Need for Strangers: Proposition 187 and the Immigration Malaise / Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco -- 3. Giving Birth to the Dream: Realizing a Multiethnic, Multiracial Nation / Rhonda Rios-Kravitz -- 4. Mexican/Latino Immigrants and the Santa Ana Public Library: An Urban Ethnography / Susan Luevano-Molina -- 5. Santa Ana Public Library Staff Perceptions of Immigrant Library Usage / Kenneth M. Knox -- 6. Passport to Promise: Public Libraries as Intellectual Spaces for Immigrant Students / JoAnn K. Aguirre -- 7. Impact of Proposition 187 on Public Libraries and Elementary Education in Tucson, Arizona / Ninfa Almance Trejo -- 8. The Anti-Affirmative Action Movement in California: Implications for Public Library Services to Asian Immigrants / Xiwen Zhang -- 9. Immigrants, Global Digital Economies, Cyber Segmentation, and Emergent Information Services / Richard Chabran --
10. The Practice and Politics of Public Library Services to Asian Immigrants / Xiwen Zhang -- 11. Some Basic Issues of Diversity: A Contextual Inquiry / Ling Hwey Jeng -- 12. Anti-Immigrant Literature: A Selected Bibliography / Evelyn Escatiola.

ISBN

0313305242 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001019987

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries