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Book Review: The Political Socialization of the Mexican-American People

This book. written in the late sixties, is based on the doctoral dissertation in political science of the author. Dr. Guzman was, at the time, assistant director of the noted UCLA Mexican-American Study Project directed by Professor Leo Grebler. The conceptual approach borrows heavily from the UCLA project though the writer is careful from the very beginning to declare his intellectual independence and to outline the distinguishing features that separate his work from that of his mentors at the UCLA project. He affirms to be "... more openly partisan to the Mexican-American people than the final product of the project," and he adds that his book contains "... many of the arguments that the author made within the project, some of which were accepted and integrated into the publications that were released, and many of which could not be accepted within the conceptual framework of the larger research effort" (p. xiii). The system analysis approach of this work can be summarized as follows. The political socialization of Mexican Americans is defined as the sum of the experiences that Mexican American people have while interacting with the dominant group in the various sectors of the social system, including the economic, the political and the religious. The interactions are then analysed in terms of the images that the minority and the dominant group have of each other, and their own ideologies are also studied within this context of mutual interaction. Similarly, the social organization of Mexican Americans is examined from the point of view of the these interactions and is considered to be a response to the Anglo-