BRENNER, Christine Thurlow <br/><br/>
Latina administrators in local government :  the interplay of role orientantion and policy intentions 

 - Thousand Oaks :  SAGE,  January 2009 
<br/><br/> Latina administrators in urban municipal bureaucracies experiencing demographic change are continuously constructing their role—at times calling on their ethnic/nationality lens and at other times drawing on their racialized, feminist perspective and always mindful of their institutional context. Personal interviews with 16 Latina administrators provide rich insights into the ways race/ethnicity, gender, and institutional context intertwine in affecting policy outcomes. Three Latina administrator role orientations—activists, bridge builders, and institutionalists—are identified and linked to strength of identity to theoretical bases of representative bureaucracy, Latina critical race theory, new institutionalism, and concepts of legal and cultural abidance