Latinos : Remaking America

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

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

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-Orouo

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 Ruix

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

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