First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Rodolfo D. Torresis Professor of Chicano Studies and Public Policy at California State University, Long Beach and Visiting Professor of Education and Social Policy at the University of California, Irvine. He is co-editor of Latinos and Education(Routledge, 1997) and New AmericanDestinies(Routledge, 1996), and co-author of LatinoMetropolis(forthcoming 199x). George Katsiaficasis Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Wentworth Institute of Technology and Editor of the New PoliticalSciencejournal. He is author of The Subversion ofPolitics: European Autonomous Social Movements and theDecolonization of Everyday Life.