Latinos: Remaking America - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0520234863 ISBN 13: 9780520234864

Verlag: University of California Press, 2002

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"This rich and varied collections gives content and analytic shape to the notion of a pan-ethnic Latino experience in the U.S. The authors use as markers a variety of shared socioeconomic conditions and immigration histories at the heart of these diverse experiences. Lations takes an important step toward carving out a field for empirical and theoretical specification."-Saskia Sassen, author of Guests and Aliens; "This is a landmark scholarly work in its scope, comprehensiveness, and excellence. It makes an important contribution to improving our understanding of the Latino experience in the United States."-Raul Yzaguirre, President of the National Council of La Raza; "Latinos brings together the most sophisticated thinking on the changing intellectual complexion of America. Drawing upon scholars in both the humanities and the social sciences, Latinos challenges us to redefine what we mean by 'American' culture and indeed 'America' itself. This book is necessary reading for all those who believe that a fully inclusive definition of American Studies is long overdue."-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

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Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States and will comprise a quarter of the country's population by the mid-21st century. The process of Latinization, the result of globalization and the biggest migration flow in the history of the Americas, is indeed reshaping the character of the US. This book brings together some of the leading scholars now studying the social, cultural, racial, economic and political changes wrought by the experiences, travails and fortunes of the Latino population. How are Latinos and Latinas changing the face of the Americas? What is new and different about this current wave of migration? In this book social scientists, humanities scholars and policy experts examine what every citizen and every student needs to know about Latinos in the US, covering issues from historical continuities and changes to immigration, race, labour, health, language, education and politics. Recognizing the diversity and challenges facing Latinos in the US, this book addresses what it means to define the community as such and how to move forward on a variety of political and cultural fronts.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0520234863
• ISBN 13: 9780520234864
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 502
• Herausgeber: Suarez-Orozco Marcelo, Páez Mariela