Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: Latina Issues
Author: Antoinette Sedillo LópezPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000149978
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book attempts to make Latina history visible and Latina voices heard. It focuses solely on women – not to marginalize Latina stories but to showcase them, illustrating Latina perspectives on colonization, gender, race, and class.
In the Barrios
Author: Joan MoorePublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610448375
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
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 cope with poverty? No, say the contributors to In the Barrios. Their portraits of eight Latino communities—in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Chicago, Albuquerque, Laredo, and Tucson—reveal a far more complex reality. In the Barrios responds directly to current debates on the origins of the "underclass" and depicts the cultural, demographic, and historical forces that have shaped poor Latino communities. These neighborhoods share many hardships, yet they manifest no "typical" form of poverty. Instead, each group adapts its own cultural and social resources to the difficult economic circumstances of American urban life. The editors point to continued immigration as an issue of overriding importance in understanding urban Latino poverty. Newcomers to concentrated Latino areas build a local economy that provides affordable amenities and promotes ethnic institutional development. In many of these neighborhoods, a network of emotional as well as economic support extends across families and borders. The first major assessment of inner-city Latino communities in the United States, In the Barrios will change the way we approach the current debate on urban poverty, immigration, and the underclass.
Barrio Ballots
Author: Rodolfo O. de la GarzaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429715609
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This book examines political activities in the key Latino barrio of five of the nation's principal cities during the 1990 elections: El Barrio of New York; Magnolia of Houston; Chicago's Pilsen; Boyle Heights in Los Angeles; and Calle Ocho in Miami.
Havana USA
Author: María Cristina GarcíaPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520211170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A Cuban refugee raised in Miami, Maria Cristina Garcia presents a comprehensive and revealing account of the unprecedented Cuban migration into South Florida since Fidel Castro came to power. Garcia's exploration of the complicated realm of Cuban American identity sets a new standard in social and cultural history.
Challenging Fronteras
Author: Mary RomeroPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317958705
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Challenging Fronteras reflects an important new wave of research that moves beyond sweeping generalizations that treat Latinos as a monolithic cultural group. This anthology focuses on the diversity of Latino experiences by providing historical specificity and cutting-edge research that employs the conceptual and analytical tools of social science. Contributors, selected from leading researchers in Latino Studies, include Patricia Zavella, Suzanne Oboler, Alejandro Portes, Clara Rodriquez, Marta Tienda, Nestor Rodriquez, and others.
Age or Need?
Author: Bernice L. NeugartenPublisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780803919082
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Should benefits for older people be based on age or need? Do programmes that serve only older people people deflect resources that should go to other people? Some of the contributors to this volume argue that social service programmes should be based on need, rather than defined groups of people. Apart from anything else, age-based programmes confirm negative stereotypes of older people, and lump them into an undifferentiated group. But would the reform of social services along these lines jeopardize the recent progress made in the condition of older people? New thoughts and new information are provided in support of both arguments. 'Here is a ringside seat at a critical juncture in the social reconstruction of old age' --
Statistical Reporter
Author: United States. Office of Federal Statistical Policy and StandardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Statistical Reporter
Author: Aging in Minority Groups
Author: R. L. McNeelyPublisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Older members of minority groups are discriminated against, not only because they're old, but because of their ethnic group. Perhaps for this reason, studies of older people in minorities have tended to approach the subject as a social problem. This volume of essays written by minority group contributors takes a more positive view. The contributions focus on how normal members of minorities cope with the problems of being old. These normative patterns, the demographics of older minority group members, and issues of service delivery and policy are examined.