Bücher der Reihe Latinos and American Politics

Racism, Latinos, and the Public Policy Process studies the public policy process of the state and how this process becomes racially biased, looking at the relationship between the state structure and the individual decision-maker.

This book puts recent events in the Southwestern United States into historical context, exploring how and why powerful elites are laying an assault on the history and identity of Mexican Americans and Latinos. It argues that neoliberalism and the privatization of schools and higher education drives this phenomenon.