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Immigrant Politics and the Public Library
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Susan Luévano-Molina
Book Code: GM0524
ISBN: 0-313-30524-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30524-5
208 pages, tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/2001
List Price: $95.00 (UK Sterling Price: £54.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: This book explores the impact of the nativist movement on public library usage among Latino and Asian immigrants. The activism of concerned librarians within the California Library Association to defend the rights of immigrant library users after the passage of Proposition 187 is documented. In addition, four original research studies suggest that public libraries that provided relevant multilingual collections and services, multilingual staff, and strong public services have remained vibrant and well-used institutions despite widespread anti-immigrant sentiments and heightened anxiety among library users. The extensive qualitative studies that are reported in this volume are unique to the field of library science. Three of the studies focus on the heavily Mexican/Latino immigrant city of Santa Ana, CA, which is located in Orange County, home to the most virulent anti-immigrant forces, including the Save Our State organizers who initiated the Proposition 187 legislation. Two articles deal specifically with Asian American communities, one ascertaining the negative effects of the elimination of affirmative action policies in public library hiring and promotion, the other recounting the political nature and practice that characterizes dynamic community services to Asian immigrant communities.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The New Immigrants, Neo-Nativism, and the Public Library by Susan Luévano-Molina
  • The Need for Strangers: Proposition 187 and the Immigration Malaise by Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
  • Giving Birth to the Dream: Realizing a Multiethnic, Multiracial Nation by Rhonda Rios-Kravitz
  • Mexican/Latino Immigrants and the Santa Ana Public Library: An Urban Ethnography by Susan Luévano-Molina
  • Santa Ana Public Library Staff Perceptions of Immigrant Library Usage by Kenneth M. Knox
  • Passport to Promise: Public Libraries as Intellectual Spaces for Immigrant Students by JoAnn Aguirre
  • Impact of Proposition 187 on Public Libraries and Elementary Education in Tucson, Arizona by Ninfa Almance Trejo
  • The Anti-Affirmative Action Movement in California: Implications for Public Library Services to Asian Immigrants by Xiwen Zhang
  • Immigrants, Global Digital Economics, Cyber Segmentation, and Emergent Information Services by Richard Chabrán
  • The Practice and Politics of Public Library Services to Asian Immigrants by Xiwen Zhang
  • Some Basic Issues of Diversity: A Contextual Inquiry by Ling Hwey Jeng
  • Anti-Immigrant Literature: A Selected Bibliography by Evelyn Escatiola
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2001019987
LCC Class: Z711
Dewey Class: 027
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