Latinos

by Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M.; Paez, Mariela; David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

• ISBN13: 9780520234864
• ISBN10: 0520234863
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Probing the themes of transnationalism, race, gender, and class, this pathbreaking volume by a group of eminent scholars provides the most incisive and comprehensive look to date at what every citizen needs to know about the Latino experience in the United States

Author Biography

Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education at Harvard University, is Co-Director of the Harvard Immigration Projects. He is author of many scholarly articles and books Mariela M. Paez received her doctorate in education from Harvard in 2001. She is currently working as a researcher at Harvard University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: The Research Agenda	1	(38)
Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco
Mariela M. Paez
PART ONE: HISTORIES, MIGRATIONS, AND COMMUNITIES	39	(168)
``Y tu, ¿que?'' (Y2K): Latino History in the New Millennium	45	(14)
George J. Sanchez
Islands and Enclaves: Caribbean Latinos in Historical Perspective	59	(16)
Juan Flores
Power and Identity: Miami Cubans	75	(22)
Alex Stepick
Carol Dutton Stepick
Commentary	93	(4)
John H. Coatsworth
Community Dynamics and the Rise of Street Gangs	97	(13)
Diego Vigil
Gender, Ethnicity, and Race in School and Work Outcomes of Second-Generation Mexican Americans	110	(16)
Robert C. Smith
Unions and Latinos: Mutual Transformation	126	(24)
John Trumpbour
Elaine Bernard
Commentary	146	(4)
Merilee S. Grindle
Two Nations under God? Latino Religious Life in the United States	150	(15)
Peggy Levitt
Ambivalent Reception: Mass Public Responses to the ``New'' Latino Immigration to the United States	165	(25)
Wayne A. Cornelius
Resurrecting Exclusion: The Effects of 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform on Communities and Families in Texas, El Salvador, and Mexico	190	(17)
Jacqueline Hagan
Nestor Rodriguez
Commentary	202	(5)
Mary Waters
PART TWO: HEALTH, FAMILIES, LANGUAGES, EDUCATION, AND POLITICS	207	(228)
The Latino Health Research Agenda for the Twenty-first Century	215	(21)
David E. Hayes-Bautista
Latinos' Access to Employment-based Health Insurance	236	(23)
E. Richard Brown
Hongjian Yu
Commentary	254	(5)
Paul Farmer
Families on the Frontier: From Braceros in the Fields to Braceras in the Home	259	(15)
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Ambiguous Loss: Risk and Resilience in Latino Immigrant Families	274	(15)
Celia Jaes Falicov
The Plasticity of Culture and Psychodynamic and Psychosocial Processes in Latino Immigrant Families	289	(17)
Ricardo C. Ainslie
Commentary	302	(4)
Carola Suarez-Orozco
Bilingual Infants: Mapping the Research Agenda	306	(15)
Barbara Zurer Pearson
Latin@ Languages and Identities	321	(18)
Ana Celia Zentella
Learning English in California: Guideposts for the Nation	339	(23)
Patricia Gandara
Commentary	359	(3)
Maria S. Carlo
Catherine E. Snow
The Schooling of Latino Children	362	(13)
Luis C. Moll
Richard Ruiz
Affirmative Action, X Percent Plans, and Latino Access to Higher Education in the Twenty first Century	375	(23)
Jorge Chapa
Commentary	389	(9)
Gary Orfield
Forever Seen as New: Latino Participation in American Elections	398	(12)
Louis DeSipio
Rodolfo O. de la Garza
Gender and Citizenship in Latino Political Participation	410	(25)
Lisa J. Montoya
Commentary	430	(5)
Jorge I. Dominguez
Epilogue: Problematic Paradigms: Racial Diversity and Corporate Identity in the Latino Community	435	(22)
Silvio Torres-Saillant
Afterword: American Projections	457	(6)
Doris Sommer
Notes on Contributors	463	(4)
Index	467