POLISCI 391AP Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Collective Action, Latias And Latios, Asian Americans

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLISCI 391AP
• Professor: B L I N D E R

Document Summary

Latinos as immigrants or descendants of immigration their politics count. Latinos as stakeholders in immigration policy debates. I(cid:373)(cid:373)igratio(cid:374) as deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)t of lati(cid:374)os" partisa(cid:374)ship a(cid:374)d (cid:448)ote choice ((cid:373)irror i(cid:373)age of backlash) Asian americans as another relevant political group, but less numerous, less group consciousness. Group consciousness: (cid:862)we share a, b, c(cid:863) Identification: (cid:862)i a(cid:373) a(cid:374) x(cid:863: linked fate: explanation of shared political identification. Collective action: in what arena do we act (elections, protests, unions, courts, lobbying, etc. ), relationship between activists and masses (consensus or contestation?) Chavez (against latino threat narrative): mexican americans can, and do, integrate: evidence: generational differences, 2nd and 3rd generations more like the rest of the us on many measures. Immigrants bring beliefs/expectations about politics rooted in countries of origin. Immigrants who arrive as adults learn us politics as adults, (cid:862)ad(cid:448)erse socializatio(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:862)de(cid:448)alui(cid:374)g(cid:863) discourse pro-latino attitudes, intention to register and vote: ex. 2012, 2016 republican presidential primaries had high latino turnout and.