"Hispanics in the United States" represents a collective
exploration providing a basic foundation of the information
available to understand Hispanics in the United States and create
an effective policy agenda. Hispanics are projected to be the
largest minority group in the United States in the twenty-first
century. The contributions define an agenda which will be useful
for students, scholars, service practitioners, political activists,
as well as policy makers. The opening essays define the diversity
of the Hispanic experience in America and put each of the other
essays within a larger context. This edition adds a new
introduction by the editors incorporating and evaluating the
implications of the results of the national 2000 census. The book
is organized into two sections: the first establishes the
historical, demographic, religious, and cultural context of
Hispanics in the United States. The second describes the major
issues facing this population in the American social structure,
specifically the areas of health care, the labor market, criminal
justice, social welfare, and education. The work concludes with a
discussion of the role played by Hispanics in the political life of
the nation. The contributors, all of whom are scholars with
demonstrated competence in the areas, include: Teresa A. Sullivan,
David Maldonado, Melissa Roderick, Barry Chiswick, Michael Hurst,
Zulema Suarez, Alvin Korte, Katie McDonough, Cruz Reynoso, and
Christine Marie Sierra, as well as David Engstrom and Pastora San
Juan Cafferty. Together they have produced a book which will be
extremely useful to anyone developing public policies and creating
social interventions at either the national or local levels during
the coming decade. This new edition is a valuable contributor to
discussions about the issues defining the population that will be
the largest minority group in the United States in this century.
Pastora San Juan Cafferty is professor, in the School of Social
Service Administration, and a member of the Center for Latin
America Studies at the University of Chicago. She is co-author of
the "Dilemma of American Immigration: Beyond the Golden Door" and
"The Politics of Language." She has written extensively on issues
of race and ethnicity in America. David W. Engstrom is associate
professor in the school of social work at San Diego State
University and the author of "Presidential Decision Making Adrift."
He has published in the areas of immigration, health care, and
program evaluation.
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