TY - BOOK AU - Gibbs,Jewelle Taylor AU - Bankhead,Teiahsha TI - Preserving Privilege: California Politics, Propositions, and People of Color SN - 9780313074288 AV - F870.A1 -- G53 2001eb U1 - 323.1/794/0904 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury Publishing USA KW - Minorities -- Government policy -- California KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The California Crucible: Melting Pot or Cauldron? -- 2. Coming to California: Chasing the Dream -- 3. Los Angeles: The Legacy of Rodney King -- 4. California's Three Strikes Initiative: The Politics of Crime and Corrections -- 5. Saving Our State: Demonizing the Immigrants -- 6. Affirmative Action: Resisting Change, Reclaiming Privilege -- 7. Bilingual Education: Language, Culture, and Identity -- 8. Culture Wars at Home and Abroad: National and International Trends -- 9. The Politics of Identity: Conflict or Coexistence? -- 10. Meeting the Millennium: Making Multiculturalism Work -- For Further Reading -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3000723 ER -