BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Gilda L. Ochoa is an assistant professor of Sociology and Chicana/o Studies at Pomona College, where she teaches courses on Chicanas/os in contemporary society and on race and ethnicity. Her publications include “Mexican Americans’ Attitudes Toward and Interactions With Mexican Immigrants: A Qualitative Analysis of Conflict and Cooperation," Social Science Quarterly 81 (March 2000): 84-105 and “Everyday Ways of Resistance and Cooperation: Mexican American Women Building Puentes with Immigrants,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 20:1 (1999): 1-20. Using in-depth interviews and participant observations with residents of a Los Angeles county suburb, she is completing a book length manuscript tentatively titled Becoming Neighbors: Mexican American and Mexican Immigrant Relations.
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