Latinos in a Changing US Economy: Comparative Perspectives on Growing InequalityRebecca Morales, Frank Bonilla The contributors identify the increasing differences in income and social status between rich and poor, Anglos and Latinos, men and women, immigrant and native born, and suggest policy options that will reverse the growth of social inequality. National data as well as a series of case studies from important Latino cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Chicago and Miami are presented. |
Contents
The Changing Economic Position of Latinos | 28 |
Latinos in Los Angeles | 55 |
The New York Perspective | 85 |
Economic Restructuring and the Process | 109 |
Cubans and the Changing Economy of Miami | 133 |
The Changing Economic Position of Mexican Americans | 160 |
Latinos | 207 |
References | 241 |
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About the Authors | 268 |
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