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Latinas/os in the United States

Changing the Face of América

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Editors:
  1. Havidán Rodríguez

    1. University of Delaware, Newark, USA

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  2. Rogelio Sáenz

    1. Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

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  3. Cecilia Menjívar

    1. Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

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  • The book is unique from extant books that have focused on the Latino/a population

  • This book goes beyond the traditional approach of only focusing on the largest Latino/a groups

  • It has a multidisciplinary focus, which includes the collaboration and contributions of scholars from a diverse number of disciplines

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxv
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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

  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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Delaware, Newark, USA

    Havidán Rodríguez

  • Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

    Rogelio Sáenz

  • Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

    Cecilia Menjívar

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Latinas/os in the United States

  • Book Subtitle: Changing the Face of América

  • Editors: Havidán Rodríguez, Rogelio Sáenz, Cecilia Menjívar

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71943-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-71941-2Published: 06 December 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-71942-9Published: 29 November 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-71943-6Published: 21 November 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXVI, 392

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Cross Cultural Psychology

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