Research Catalog

Title

Forced sacrifice as ethnic protest : the Hispano cause in New Mexico & the racial attitude confrontation of 1933 / Phillip B. Gonzales.

Author

Gonzales, Felipe, 1946-

Publication

New York : P. Lang, c2001.

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Details

Description

xiv, 275 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "Forced Sacrifice as Ethnic Protest brings to light important aspects of identity politics by introducing forced sacrifice as a type of protest that ethnic minorities in the United States occasionally mount, particularly against liberal regimes in public institutions. Social science concepts and the literature on social sacrifice help define a spontaneous confrontation in which the protest crowd dramatically forces the institution to dismiss that is, to sacrifice one of its own agents as a symbolic concession to ethnic inequality and as a way to open up social reform. The Racial Attitude Confrontation of 1933, involving the Hispanos of New Mexico, is analyzed in terms of forced sacrifice.
• The Hispano cause is clarified as a significant tradition of ethnic mobilization that arose in the Southwest between the 1880s and the 1930s, revealing some key symbolic and instrumental elements of identity as minority groups mobilize for their interests."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Politics, media & popular culture ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Politics, media & popular culture v. 5.

Subject

• University of New Mexico > History
• 1900-1999
• Hispanic Americans > New Mexico > Politics and government > 20th century
• Hispanic Americans > New Mexico > Social conditions > 20th century
• Protest movements > New Mexico > History > 20th century
• Student movements > New Mexico > History > 20th century
• Scapegoat > Case studies
• New Mexico > Ethnic relations
• New Mexico > Race relations

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-268) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter 1 Hispano Cause: Sacred Heritage and Collective Preparedness 19 -- Chapter 2 Contradictions of Liberalism: Attitude Research and the Making of a Sacrificial Object 59 -- Chapter 3 Heightened Conflict, the Stock of Prejudice, and the Politics of Collective Readiness 99 -- Chapter 4 Power Protest as Degradation Ceremony 125 -- Chapter 5 Protest as Inquisition: The Confrontation's Official Investigation 153.

ISBN

• 0820451215
• 0820451584 (hd.bd.)

LCCN

^^^00042436^

OCLC

• 44174251
• SCSB-12481609

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library