Herbert S. Klein, Laird W. Bergad

Hispanics in the United States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the transformations in the demographic, social, and economic structures of Latino-Americans in the United States between 1980 and 2005.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 675g
• ISBN-13: 9780521718103
• ISBN-10: 0521718104
• Artikelnr.: 29010739

Autorenporträt

Laird W. Bergad is Distinguished Professor of Latin American and Caribbean history in the Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies at Lehman College and the Ph.D. Program in History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was the founding director of Lehman College's interdisciplinary program in Latin American and Caribbean studies and Chair of the Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, and he served on the executive committees of the CUNY/Cuba (and later Caribbean) Scholarly Exchange Program and the CUNY-University of Puerto Rico Exchange. Bergad is the founding and current director of the CUNY Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at the Graduate Center. His previously published books include Coffee and the Growth of Agrarian Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico; Cuban Rural Society in the Nineteenth Century: The Social and Economic History of Monoculture in Matanzas; The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880 (co-author); The Demographic and Economic History of Slavery in Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720-1888; and The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Immigration to the United States to 1980
2. The Hispanic population to 1980
3. Population growth and dispersion, 1980-2005
4. The demography of the Hispanic population
5. Wealth and poverty
6. Educational attainment
7. Citizenship, the Latino electorate, and voter participation
8. Occupational structures, employment, and unemployment
9. English language abilities and domestic usage
10. Hispanic business ownership
11. Race
12. Endogamous and exogamous marriage patterns among Latino household heads
13. Conclusion.