Hispanics and the future of America /
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Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2006. |
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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 |
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.