Latinos in American Society : Families and Communities in Transition /

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It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zambrana, Ruth E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hispanic Americans > Study and teaching (Higher)
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions.
Hispanic American families.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
Familles americaines d'origine latino-americaine.
Americains d'origine latino-americaine > Conditions sociales.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : why study Latino families?
  • Demographic trends : past, present, and future
  • How have Latinos been studied?
  • The importance of education
  • Girlhood to womanhood
  • Boyhood to manhood
  • Physical and mental well-being through adulthood
  • Public service systems as sites of the reproduction of inequality
  • Persistent images and changing perceptions in the twenty-first century
  • Capturing the lives of Latinos in the United States : advancing the production of critical social science knowledge.

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