Latinas/os in the United States

1. Front Matter

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2. Theoretical And Methodological Issues Of Latina/O Research

   1. Theoretical and Methodological Issues of Latina/o Research

      • Nestor Rodríguez

      Pages 3-15

3. Immigration And Latina/O Incorporation

   1. New Latino Destinations

      • Manuel A. Vásquez, Chad E. Seales, Marie Friedmann Marquardt

      Pages 19-35

   2. Latino Incorporation in the United States in Local and Transnational Contexts

      • Robert Courtney Smith

      Pages 36-53

4. The Social Demography Of Latinas/Os

   1. Demographic Patterns: Age Structure, Fertility, Mortality, and Population Growth

      • Jorge del Pinal

      Pages 57-71

   2. Through Children's Eyes: Families and Households of Latino Children in the United States

      • Jennifer E. Glick, Jennifer Van Hook

      Pages 72-86

   3. U.S. Latinos/as and the “American Dream”: Diverse Populations and Unique Challenges in Housing

      • Eileen Diaz McConnell

      Pages 87-100

   4. Latino Health Paradoxes: Empirical Evidence, Explanations, Future Research, and Implications

      • Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Lisa M. Bates

      Pages 101-113

   5. Latino Crime and Delinquency in the United States

      • Ramiro Martinez Jr

      Pages 114-126

5. Schooling, Work, And Income Among Latinas/Os

   1. The Educational Experiences of Latinos in the United States

      • William Vélez

      Pages 129-148

   2. Latinos in the United States Labor Market

      • Lisa Catanzarite, Lindsey Trimble

      Pages 149-167

   3. Latino/a Entrepreneurship in the United States: A Strategy of Survival and Economic Mobility

      • Zulema Valdez

      Pages 168-180

   4. Income, Earnings, and Poverty: A Portrait of Inequality Among Latinos/as in the United States

      • Alberto Dávila, Marie T. Mora, Alma D. Hales

      Pages 181-195

6. Latina/O Culture

   1. Mapping the Dynamic Terrain of U.S. Latina/o Media Research

      • Isabel Molina Guzmán

      Pages 199-209

   2. As the Latino/a World Turns: The Literary and Cultural Production of Transnational Latinidades

      • Ana Patricia Rodríguez

      Pages 210-224

   3. Religion and Religiosity

      • Miguel A. De La Torre

      Pages 225-240

7. Redefining Borders: The Latina/O Population In The United States

   1. Latinos/os (in) on the Border

      • Emily Skop, Brian Gratton, Myron P. Gutmann

      Pages 243-262

   2. Entre Nosotras/os: Theorizing, Researching, and Constructing Cross-Latina/o Relations in the United States

      • Gilda L. Ochoa

      Pages 263-276

   3. Beyond Gender Dichotomies: Toward a New Century of Gendered Scholarship in the Latina/o Experience

      • Maura I. Toro-Morn

      Pages 277-293

   4. Adelante Mujer: Latina Activism, Feminism, and Empowerment

      • Denise A. Segura, Elisa Facio

      Pages 294-307

Clara E. Rodríguez As is befitting a book on Latinas/os at the start of the 21st century, the chapters in this volume reflect the contemporary panorama of Latinas/os in the United States. Today, Latinas/os are the largest minority group. They accounted for 12. 5% of the total U. S. population in the last decennial census; recent estimates sho wed the Hispanic population to be 41. 3 million as of July 1 1, 2004, or 14% of the nation’s total population. However, this estimate does not include the 3. 9 million residents of Puerto Rico, who are also U. S. citizens and would raise the total to 2 45. 2 million. This would make the U. S. population of Latinos the second-largest Spanish-origin population in the hemisphere, after Mexico. The growth of this population since 1980 has been dramatic. Hispanics/Latinos grew more than seven times faster than the population of the nation as a whole, increasing by half, whereas the white (non-Hispanic) population increased by only 6% between 1980 and 1990 (U. S. Bureau of the Census, 1991, Table 1; U. S. Bureau of the Census, 1993, p. 2). In the 1990s, the Hispanic population increased 58%. Moreover, between 2003 and 2004, one of every two people added to 3 the nation’s population was Hispanic/Latino. Consequently, not only are Latinos a substantial part of the U. S. population, but they account for half its population growth.

• Demography
• Diversity
• Higher Education
• Mental Health
• Methodology of the Social Sciences
• Nation
• Public Health
• Religious Studies
• Transnational
• culture
• integration
• migration
• minority
• political participation
• race

• University of Delaware, Newark, USA

  Havidán Rodríguez

• Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

  Rogelio Sáenz

• Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

  Cecilia Menjívar

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