Challenging Fronteras

Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-415-91608-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 634 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Romero, Mary

Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette

Ortiz, Vilma

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

needs the spanish 5 i; 12 a and i PART ONE CONCEPTUALIZING THE LATINO EXPERIENCE
1 Candace Nelson and Marta Tienda -- The Structuring of Hispanic Ethnicity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
2 Suzanne Oboler So Far From God, so Close to the United States: The Roots of Hispanic Homogenization
3 J. Jorge Klor de Alva The Invention of Ethnic Origins and The Negotiation of Latino Identity, 1969-1981
PART TWO IMMIGRATION: COMING FROM THE AMERICAS
4 Nora Hamilton and Norma Stoltz Chinchilla -- Central American Migration: A Framework for Analysis
5 Clara E. Rodriguez -- A Summary of Puerto Rican Migration of the United States
6 Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo -- The History of Mexican Undocumented Settlement in the United States
7 Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick -- A Repeat Performance? The Nicaraguan Exodus
PART THREE RECONSTRUCTING ETHNIC IDENTITIES
8 Luis E. Guarnizo -- Los Dominicanyorks: The Making of a Binational Society
9 Juan Flores -- Que Assimilated, Brother, Yo Soy Asimilao: The Structuring of Puerto Rican Identity in the U.S.
10 Patricia Zavella -- Reflections on Diversity Among Chicanas
11 Mary Romero -- Life as the Maid's Daughter: An Exploration of Race, Class and Gender
PART FOUR PAID AND UNPAID WORK: NEGOTIATING GENDER RELATIONS
12 M. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Anna M. Garcia -- Power Surrendered, Power Restored: The Politics of Work and Family Among
13 Scott Coltrane and Elsa O. Valdez -- Reluctant Compliance: Work-Family Role Allocation in Dual-Earner Chicano Families
14 Terry A. Repack -- New Roles in a New Landscape
PART FIVE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL RESTRUCTURING
15 Alex Stepick and Guillermo Grenier with Steve Morris and Debbie Draznin -- Brothers in Wood
16 Max J. Castro -- The Politics of Language in Miami
17 Nestor P. Rodriguez and Jacqueline Maria Hagan -- Apartment Restructuring and Latino Immigrant Tenant Struggles: A Case Study of Human Agency

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Romero is Professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Program at Arizona State University, and is author of Maid in the U.S.A. (Routledge, 1992). Pierrette Hondagneu- Sotelo, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, is the author of Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration (1994). Vilma Ortiz is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.