Latinas/os in the United States

1. Redefining Borders: The Latina/O Population In The United States

   1. Latinas and Latinos, Sexuality, and Society: A Critical Sociological Perspective

      • Gloria González-López, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

      Pages 308-322

2. Political Mobilization And Participation Among Latinas/Os

   1. Latino Partisanship, Political Activity and Vote Choice

      • Kim Geron, Melissa R. Michelson

      Pages 325-339

   2. Political Orientations and Latino Immigrant Incorporation

      • Sarah Allen Gershon, Adrian D. Pantoja

      Pages 340-351

   3. Political Mobilization and Activism Among Latinos/as in the United States

      • Christian Zlolniski

      Pages 352-368

   4. Unions and the Unionization of Latinas/os in the United States

      • Héctor L. Delgado

      Pages 369-384

3. Back Matter

   Pages 385-392

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Clara E. Rodríguez As is befitting a book on Latinas/os at the start of the 21st century, the chapters in this volume reflect the contemporary panorama of Latinas/os in the United States. Today, Latinas/os are the largest minority group. They accounted for 12. 5% of the total U. S. population in the last decennial census; recent estimates sho wed the Hispanic population to be 41. 3 million as of July 1 1, 2004, or 14% of the nation’s total population. However, this estimate does not include the 3. 9 million residents of Puerto Rico, who are also U. S. citizens and would raise the total to 2 45. 2 million. This would make the U. S. population of Latinos the second-largest Spanish-origin population in the hemisphere, after Mexico. The growth of this population since 1980 has been dramatic. Hispanics/Latinos grew more than seven times faster than the population of the nation as a whole, increasing by half, whereas the white (non-Hispanic) population increased by only 6% between 1980 and 1990 (U. S. Bureau of the Census, 1991, Table 1; U. S. Bureau of the Census, 1993, p. 2). In the 1990s, the Hispanic population increased 58%. Moreover, between 2003 and 2004, one of every two people added to 3 the nation’s population was Hispanic/Latino. Consequently, not only are Latinos a substantial part of the U. S. population, but they account for half its population growth.

• Demography
• Diversity
• Higher Education
• Mental Health
• Methodology of the Social Sciences
• Nation
• Public Health
• Religious Studies
• Transnational
• culture
• integration
• migration
• minority
• political participation
• race

• University of Delaware, Newark, USA

  Havidán Rodríguez

• Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

  Rogelio Sáenz

• Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

  Cecilia Menjívar

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