By Mario Barrera

Does the success of monetary equality in a multiethnic society require the total lack of a minority's cultural identity? Beyond Aztlan argues that American society has traditionally considered a particular cultural identification as anything that an ethnic workforce offers up so one can in achieving fiscal and political parity. Mexican americans, who've scored constrained earnings of their fight for equality because the Nineteen Forties, are proving to be no exception to the rule of thumb. even if, Barrera compares the placement of Mexican americans to that of minority teams in 4 different nations and concludes that equality doesn't unavoidably require assimilation.

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