Out Of The Barrio: Toward A New Politics Of Hispanic Assimilation

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Are Hispanics making itachieving the American dream following the pattern of other ethnic groups This controversial book shatters the myth that 20 million His panicsfast becoming the nations largest minorityare a permanent underclass. Chavez considers the radical implications for bilingual education, immigration policy, and affirmative action.

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Linda Chavez, a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute, is president of the centre for Equal Opportunity, a nonprofit public policy research organization in Washington, D.C. She writes frequently for such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and USA Today and is the author of Out of the Barrio, An Unlikely Conservative, and Betrayal. She lives in Purcellville, Virginia.