Latinos in American Society : : Families and Communities in Transition / / Ruth Enid Zambrana.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Zambrana, Ruth Enid,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 29 tables, 3 charts/graphs
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures and Tables --; Preface --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Demographic Trends --; 3. How Have Latinos Been Studied? --; 4. The Importance of Education --; 5. Girlhood to Womanhood --; 6. Boyhood to Manhood --; 7. Physical and Mental Well-Being through Adulthood --; 8. Public Service Systems as Sites of the Reproduction of Inequality --; 9. Persistent Images and Changing Perceptions in the Twenty-First Century --; 10. Capturing the Lives of Latinos in the United States: Advancing the Production of Critical Social Science Knowledge --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780801461040; 9783110536157
• DOI: 10.7591/9780801461040
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ruth Enid Zambrana.

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 the United States to demonstrate how national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and education affect the well-being of families and individuals. By mapping out how these factors result in economic, social, and political disadvantage, Zambrana challenges the widespread negative perceptions of Latinos in America and the single story of Latinos in the United States as a monolithic group. Synthesizing an increasingly substantial body of social science research—much of it emerging from the interdisciplinary fields of Chicano studies, U.S. Latino studies, critical race studies, and family studies—the author adopts an intersectional "social inequality lens" as a means for understanding the broader sociopolitical dynamics of the Latino family, considering ethnic subgroup diversity, community context, institutional practices, and their intersections with family processes and well-being. Zambrana, a leading expert on Latino populations in America, demonstrates the value of this approach for capturing the contemporary complexity of and transitions within diverse U.S. Latino families and communities. This book offers the most up-to-date portrait we have of Latinos in America today.