Latinos: Remaking America

Book Overview

Latinos are the fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States and will comprise a quarter of the country's population by mid-century. This landmark book is the most definitive and comprehensive snapshot available of this trend. A new preface includes the most recent data on a variety of indicators of the changing Latino landscape in the United States. Copub: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520258274
• ISBN13: 9780520258273
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 521 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

a much-needed book on Latinos in America

*Latinos: Remaking America* is heady stuff that is the perfect textbook for a Sociology class with an emphasis on Latinos. It's perfect because there are so many issues that this book addresses that readers can relate or connect to today's current events on Latinos. Such issues are education, language, religion, health, women, employment and many more. This book should serve as the bible of Latinos in America. The reason I said it was heady stuff because there are a lot of statistics in the book. While I believe that statistics are important, I do have to say that some of the graphs are not "friendly". However, I did wish that there were essays or articles by grassroot Latinos to give readers a "breather" from heavy reading. I took me over a month to read this detailed book. With Latinos constantly growing in America, I will not be surprised if this book has to be revised in the near future.