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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul McCaffrey |
| ISBN: | 9780824210670 0824210670 |
| OCLC Number: | 77485799 |
| Description: | 199 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Preface -- [pt]. 1. The Hispanic-American experience : demographics and beyond -- Editor's introduction -- 1. Latino? Hispanic? Chicano? / Juan Castillo -- 2. Hispanic Americans / Roberto Suro -- 3. Racial, ethnic identities evolve as nation changes / Chris Echegaray -- 4. A hybrid tongue or Slanguage? / Daniel Hernandez -- 5. The Latino culture wars / Seth Kugel -- 6. Hispanics have made great strides but are they still striving / Sarah Coppola -- 7. The house that used to be in Mexico / Felix F. Gutierrez -- 8. Changes in rhythm for Florida / John-Thor Dahlburg -- 9. The new face of Appalachia / Kim Cobb -- [pt]. 2. Hispanic Americans and the immigration debate -- Editor's introduction -- 1. Assimilation, past and present / Robert A. Levine -- 2. Back to the future / David Frum -- 3. English spoken here? / Sydney J. Freedberg -- 4. Illegal-- but essential / David Streitfeld -- 5. My life as an illegal / John Spong -- 6. Divided over immigration / Jennifer Delson -- [pt]. 3. The growing political clout of Hispanic Americans -- Editor's introduction -- 1. A Latin power surge / Arian Campo-Flores and Howard Fineman -- 2. Latino power? / Roberto Suro -- 3. Bush's "real" Hispanic numbers / Richard Nadler -- 4. G.O.P. risking Hispanic votes on immigration / David D. Kirkpatrick. [pt]. 4. Cultural and econimic influence -- Editor's introduction -- 1. A nueve generation / Jordan Levin -- 2. Grading Hispanic gains on TV? Start with ABC / Eric Deggans -- 3. Hispanics' web identity grows as ads target diverse audience / Alan Sipress -- 4. English enters the media for Latinos / Leon Lazaroff -- 5. Latino marketing goes mainstream / Samar Farah -- 6. Pursuing Hispanic wealth / Ben White -- [pt]. 5. Education and bilingual debate -- Editor's introduction -- 1. Bilingual or immersion? / Kendra Hamilton and Stephen Krashen -- 2. From the beginning ... There needs to be light / Mayra Rodriguez Valladares -- 3. Pew report : Latinos more likely than Blacks, Whites to attend the largest public high schools -- 4. Demographic dilemma / Gary Boulard -- 5. Academe's Hispanic future / Peter Schmidt -- Bibliography -- Books -- Web sites -- Additional periodical articles with abstracts -- Index. |
| Series Title: | Reference shelf, v. 79, no. 1. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Paul McCaffrey. |
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