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Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core

Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core 1103634 SREXXX10.1177/23326492221103634Sociology of Race and Ethnicity XX(X)Book Reviews research-article2022 Book Reviews Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 2023, Vol. 9(1) 109 –118 © American Sociological Association 2022 Durable Ethnicity: sre.sagepub.com Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core Edward Telles and Christina A. Sue Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. $115. 270 pp. ISBN-13: 9780190221492. Reviewed by: Bridget Eileen Rivera, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA DOI: 10.1177/23326492221103634 Edward Telles and Christina A. Sue take on the assumed but mutually inclusive, allowing both long-dominant narrative of assimilationism in their domains to coexist and even thrive. book, Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and Chapter 2 (“Mexican American”) and Chapter 3 the Ethnic Core. Assimilationism largely situates (“Mexican American”)—among the strongest mainstream culture in opposition to immigrant chapters in Durable Ethnicity—provide a compel- ethnic culture, seeking to explain the addition of ling account of how this dynamic plays out. Telles new ethnic groups to American identity by empha- and Sue explore the lives of two second-generation sizing the gradual decline of ethnic identity. As Mexican Americans who navigate both Mexican Telles and Sue observe, even when assimilationist and mainstream culture under the assumption that scholars attempt http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Sociology of Race and Ethnicity SAGE

Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core

Rivera, Bridget Eileen
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity , Volume 9 (1): 2 – Jan 1, 2023
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1103634 SREXXX10.1177/23326492221103634Sociology of Race and Ethnicity XX(X)Book Reviews research-article2022 Book Reviews Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 2023, Vol. 9(1) 109 –118 © American Sociological Association 2022 Durable Ethnicity: sre.sagepub.com Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core Edward Telles and Christina A. Sue Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. $115. 270 pp. ISBN-13: 9780190221492. Reviewed by: Bridget Eileen Rivera, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA DOI: 10.1177/23326492221103634 Edward Telles and Christina A. Sue take on the assumed but mutually inclusive, allowing both long-dominant narrative of assimilationism in their domains to coexist and even thrive. book, Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and Chapter 2 (“Mexican American”) and Chapter 3 the Ethnic Core. Assimilationism largely situates (“Mexican American”)—among the strongest mainstream culture in opposition to immigrant chapters in Durable Ethnicity—provide a compel- ethnic culture, seeking to explain the addition of ling account of how this dynamic plays out. Telles new ethnic groups to American identity by empha- and Sue explore the lives of two second-generation sizing the gradual decline of ethnic identity. As Mexican Americans who navigate both Mexican Telles and Sue observe, even when assimilationist and mainstream culture under the assumption that scholars attempt

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Published: Jan 1, 2023

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    Gans, Herbert
  • “Why Haven’t Mexican Americans Disappeared or Gone Away?”
    Montejano, David
  • “The ‘Ethnic Core’ as an Unsung Reference Group.”
    Vasquez-Tokos, Jessica