Chicano's in Higher Education

Chicano's in Higher Education

Introduction

Of the 3.6 Million people living in California today, approximately eleven million are of Mexican ancestry, representing by far the largest single national group in the state and largest component of the state's thirteen million Latinos. With ethnic Mexicans representing close to one-third of the state's population, and Latinos accounting for 35.2 percent of its total, California naturally has become the epicenter for one of the most factious debates of the moment, the regulation of immigration and its long-term social, economic, and political consequences for America's future (Axel, 2001). Since the end of the ...