In the barrios : Latinos and the underclass debate /
The image of the "underclass" framed by persistent poverty, long-term joblessness, school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and drug use, has become synonymous with urban poverty. But does this image tell us enough about how the diverse minorities among the urban poor actually experience and cop...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
©1993.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Puerto Ricans in Sunset Park, Brooklyn: poverty amidst ethnic and economic diversity / Mercer L. Sullivan
- Barrios in transition / Joan Moore and James Diego Vigil
- Central Americans in Los Angeles: an immigrant community in transition / Norma Chinchilla, Nora Hamilton, and James Loucky
- Cubans in Miami / Alex Stepick III and Guillermo Grenier
- Economic restructuring and Latino growth in Houston / Nestor P. Rodriguez
- The Quest for community: Puerto Ricans in Chicago / Felix M. Padilla
- Historical poverty, restructuring effects, and integrative ties: Mexican American neighborhoods in a peripheral sunbelt economy / Phillip B. Gonzales
- Persistent poverty, crime and drugs: U.S.-Mexican border region / Avelardo Valdez
- U.S. Mexicans in the borderlands: being poor without the underclass / Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez.