the Hispano cause in New Mexico & the racial attitude confrontation of 1933 /
Phillip B. Gonzales
xiv, 275 pages ;
23 cm
Politics, media & popular culture ;
v. 5
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index
"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
Forced sacrifice as ethnic protest.
University of New Mexico-- History
Hispanic Americans-- New Mexico-- Politics and government-- 20th century
Hispanic Americans-- New Mexico-- Social conditions-- 20th century
Protest movements-- New Mexico-- History-- 20th century
Scapegoat, Case studies
Student movements-- New Mexico-- History-- 20th century