Hispanics and the future of America /

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Imprint:Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2006.
Description:x, 490 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions.
Hispanic Americans -- Economic conditions.
Hispanic Americans -- Statistics.
Ethnic relations.
Hispanic Americans.
Hispanic Americans -- Economic conditions.
Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions.
Population.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
United States -- Population.
United States.
Statistics.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5889446
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Other authors / contributors:Tienda, Marta.
Mitchell, Faith.
National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Hispanics in the United States.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Population.
ISBN:0309100518 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : E Pluribus Plures or E Pluribus Unum? / Marta Tienda and Faith Mitchell
  • 2. The making of a people / Ruben G. Rumbaut
  • 3. The demographic foundations of the Latino population / Jorge Durand, Edward Telles and Jennifer Flashman
  • 4. Redrawing spatial color lines : Hispanic metropolitan dispersal, segregation, and economic opportunity / Mary J. Fischer and Marta Tienda
  • 5. Hispanic families in the United States : family structure and process in an era of family change / Nancy S. Landale, R. Salvador Oropesa and Christina Bradatan
  • 6. Barriers to educational opportunities for Hispanics in the United States / Barbara Schneider, Sylvia Martinez and Ann Owens
  • 7. Hispanics in the U.S. labor market / Brian Duncan, V. Joseph Hotz and Stephen J. Trejo
  • 8. Economic well-being / Cordelia Reimers
  • 9. The health status and health behaviors of Hispanics / Jose J. Escarce, Leo S. Morales and Ruben G. Rumbaut
  • 10. Access to and quality of health care / Jose J. Escarce and Kanika Kapur
  • 11. Latino civic and political participation / Louis DeSipio
  • App. Contents : multiple origins, uncertain destinies : Hispanics and the American future.