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Latinos in American Society: Families and Communities in Transition
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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 researchmuch of it emerging from the interdisciplinary fields of Chicano studies, U.S. Latino studies, critical race studies, and family studiesthe 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.

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Latinos in
American Society

Families and Communities
in Transition

RUTH ENID ZAMBRANA

Cornell University Press

Ithaca and London

I dedicate this book to past and contemporary academics and practitioners who have provided incisive and powerful scholarship to make visible the impact of social inequality on the lives of historically underrepresented Latino subgroups. Su trabajo initiated an emerging oppositional discourse in mainstream social science research. I also dedicate this book to Latino families and communities, who continue to strive, thrive, resist, overcome, and triumph in spite of exclusionary practices. Their victories offer daily inspiration.

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Introduction: Why Study Latino Families?

Demographic Trends: Past, Present, and Future

How Have Latinos Been Studied?

The Importance of Education

Girlhood to Womanhood

Boyhood to Manhood

Physical and Mental Well-Being through Adulthood

Public Service Systems as Sites of the Reproduction of Inequality

Persistent Images and Changing Perceptions in the Twenty-First Century

Capturing the Lives of Latinos in the United States: Advancing
the Production of Critical Social Science Knowledge

References

Figures and Tables

Figures

Intersectional Lens for Understanding the Patterns of Social Inequality and Social Location of Latinos

Change in Latino Elected Office by Level of Office, 1996 and 2007

Change in Latino Elected Office by State, 1996 and 2007

Tables

Foreign-Born Population by Year of Entry and Nation of Origin

U.S. Hispanic Population by Nation of Origin, 2007

The New Latino Destinations, 2000

Social and Economic Indicators by Hispanic Subgroup, 2007

Poverty Rates by Age, Race, and Latino Nativity, 2007

English Language Proficiency and U.S. Citizenship by Latino Subgroup, 2007

Median Age, Marital Status, Household Type, and Family Size by Nativity, Race, and Ethnicity, 2007

Examples of Definitions of the Term Acculturation

Parental Perceptions of Education and Involvement in Childrens School and Literacy-Related Activities, 20022003

Demographic, Family Structure, and Other Risk Factors among Children by Race and Ethnicity

Educational Attainment by Race and Hispanic Origin, 19402007 (percent of population age 25 and older, by years of school completed)

Average SAT Scores for Twelfth Grade Test-Taking Population, by Race and Latino Subgroup, 19962006

Percentage of 18- to 24-Year-Olds Enrolled in Degree-Granting Institutions and Degrees Conferred by Race and Ethnicity, 2007

High School Dropout Rates among Females (1624 Years Old) by Race and Ethnicity, 19752008

Percentage of Degrees Granted to Women by Race and Ethnicity

Maternal and Child Health Indicators by Latino Subgroup and Race

Selected Adolescent Health Behaviors by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity

Mental Health Indicators for Children and Adolescents (< 18 Years of Age) by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity

Selected Health Care Behavior Indicators for Women by Race and Ethnicity

Comparative Ranking of Leading Causes of Death by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity

Self-Reported Health Status and Chronic Conditions for Adults 18 Years of Age and Older by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity

Depression Indicators by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity for Adults 18 Years of Age and Older

Income, Employment, and Poverty Indicators by Race and Ethnicity

Recipients of Public Benefits by Race and Ethnicity

Characteristics of Public Housing Residents by Type of Housing and Race and Ethnicity

Foster Care and Child Maltreatment Rates by Race and Ethnicity, 2006

Profile of Jail Inmates by Offense and Race and Ethnicity, 2002

Profile of Federal Prison Inmates by Offense and Race and Ethnicity, September 2003

Change in Voter Turnout Rates among Eligible Voters (1829), 2004 and 2008

Preface

Writing this book has allowed me to askand I hope answermany questions that have been on my mind since I began my educational journey in the early 1970s. Throughout my days as a student, I was struck by the fact that the lives of Latinos in the United States and their contributions to American society were largely missing from what I learned; they were never mentioned in either my undergraduate or graduate study. Once I left school in the late 1970s, I began to conduct my own research on the experiences of Latinos, but I discovered early on that there was very little scholarship available that went beyond treating Latinos as social others, people whose cultural ways were considered to be different from and alien to U.S. mainstream culture. So, in addition to documenting Latino experiences, I also faced the difficult task of trying to insert into the scientific and scholarly discourse a different theorizing orientation, one that better reflected what I personally knew about the experiences of Latinos in American society.

My own experience as a volunteer in mentoring programs for Latino youth, in juvenile detention centers, and in national advocacy organizations (where I often served as the facilitator for parent groups and visited community-based Latino organizations) acquainted me with proactive and knowledgeable Latino consumers and leaders. I valued the opportunity to meet with and listen to Latino parents and youth in communities from coast to coast. I participated as they discussed their dreams and frustrations with teachers, administrators, police officials, and social service workers who often made erroneous assumptions about them. I witnessed the material conditions in their communities and their lives and heard far too many stories of mistreatment, exclusion, and poor-quality services.

My personal experiences in both community and education settings provided the initial impetus to journey into the world of academic research in sociology. In 1999 when I joined the faculty at the University of Maryland, I was asked to develop a course on U.S. Latino families that incorporated gender, race, class, and nation. I had never taught a course specifically on Latinos, although I always tried to incorporate the Latino experience into the courses I taughtbringing in whatever data were available and assigning a few articles in this area. I also had the privilege of mentoring Latino and non-Latino students who had intellectual and personal interests in exploring varying areas of Latino life in the United States. I thought I knew a lot about the area and also assumed that an overview course would not be that difficult to prepare as emerging scholarship was gaining some prominence in the scientific and scholarly social science world.

In truth I was not prepared intellectually or emotionally for the journey into the scholarship of and about Latinos. My first step was to conduct systematic literature reviews on Latino families, changing gender roles for women and men, health, education, and media representations. I was surprised and dismayed by the outcome of this search. Where, I asked, is the information about the material conditions of Latino families and how these conditions are shaped by structural barriers and institutional practices, and the ways in which these conditions influence families hopes and dreams? Where was the Latino middle and professional class? Where were the narratives of institutional racism and mistreatment? In almost every scientific and academic discipline, discussion of Latinos was shrouded by a veil of culture, acculturation, and proposed solutions that masked the ways structural racism, discrimination, and inequity maintain Latinos as a marginalized group. I felt sad, angry, and frustrated at the persistent public scientific and scholarly presentation of Latinos as a group of foreign, marginalized, and poor people.

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