Latino Lives in America
eBook - PDF

Latino Lives in America

Making It Home

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eBook - PDF

Latino Lives in America

Making It Home

About this book

Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, with increased levels of political mobilization and influence. In the timely and thoroughgoing Latino Lives in America, six prominent Latino scholars explore the profound implications of Latinos' population growth and geographic dispersion for American politics and society, tracking key changes and continuities in Latinos' attitudes, behavior, and social experiences.

Utilizing a unique set of "narratives" from focus group interviews, supplemented with quantitative findings from the 2006 Latino National Survey, the authors provide a snapshot of Latino life in America. The Latinos interviewed provide their thoughts regarding their sense of belonging and group identification, assimilation and transnationalism, housing, education, civic engagement, and perceptions of discrimination, as well as their experiences in new destinations, where they are trying to realize the "Americano" dream.

Latino Lives in America uses these conversations and the survey data to offer both a micro and macro look at how Latinos are transforming various aspects of American politics, culture, and life and how their experiences in the United States are changing them and their families.

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Yes, you can access Latino Lives in America by Luis Ricardo Fraga,John A. Garcia,Gary M. Segura,Michael Jones-Correa,Rodney Hero,Valerie Martinez-Ebers in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Hispanic American Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1. The Growing Presence of Latinos in the United States
  4. 2. Trying for the Americano Dream: Barriers to Making the United States "Home"
  5. 3. Education: Latinos' Great Hope, America's Harsh Reality
  6. 4. Exploring Discrimination, Intergroup Relations, and the Intragroup Relations among Latinos
  7. 5. New Homes in New Communities: Living in Rural America
  8. 6. Transnationalism and the Language of Belonging
  9. 7. The Evolving Latino Community and Pan-ethnicity: Explorations into the Confluence of Interactions, Networks, and Identity
  10. 8. Conclusions: Paradoxes along the Way to Making America Home
  11. Notes
  12. References
  13. Index