Full Description
Significant changes in New York City's Latino community have occurred since the first edition of Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition was published in 1996. The Latino population in metropolitan New York has increased from 1.7 million in the 1990s to over 2.4 million, constituting a third of the population spread over five boroughs. Puerto Ricans remain the largest subgroup, followed by Dominicans and Mexicans; however, Puerto Ricans are no longer the majority of New York's Latinos as they were throughout most of the twentieth century.
Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition, second edition, is the most comprehensive reader available on the experience of New York City's diverse Latino population. The essays in Part I examine the historical and sociocultural context of Latinos in New York. Part II looks at the diversity comprising Latino New York. Contributors focus on specific national origin groups, including Ecuadorians, Colombians, and Central Americans, and examine the factors that prompted emigration from the country of origin, the socioeconomic status of the emigrants, the extent of transnational ties with the home country, and the immigrants' interaction with other Latino groups in New York. Essays in Part III focus on politics and policy issues affecting New York's Latinos. The book brings together leading social analysts and community advocates on the Latino experience to address issues that have been largely neglected in the literature on New York City. These include the role of race, culture and identity, health, the criminal justice system, the media, and higher education, subjects that require greater attention both from academic as well as policy perspectives.
Contributors: Sherrie Baver, Juan Cartagena, Javier Castaño, Ana María Díaz-Stevens, Angelo Falcón, Juan Flores, Gabriel Haslip-Viera, Ramona Hernández, Luz Yadira Herrera, Gilbert Marzán, Ed Morales, Pedro A. Noguera, Rosalía Reyes, Clara E. Rodríguez, José Ramón Sánchez, Walker Simon, Robert Courtney Smith, Andrés Torres, and Silvio Torres-Saillant.
Contents
Introduction by Angelo Falcón, Sherrie Baver, and Gabriel Haslip-Viera
Part 1. The Context
1. The Evolution of the Latina/o Community in New York City: Early Seventeenth Century to the Present by Gabriel Haslip-Viera
2. Puerto Ricans: Building the Institutions for the Next Generation of Latinos by Clara E. Rodríguez
3. Latinos and Religion in New York City: Continuities and Changes by Ana María Díaz-Stevens
Part 2. Under the Latino National Umbrella
4. Where Have All the Puerto Ricans Gone? by Andrés Torres and Gilbert Marzán
5. Perspectives on Dominicans in New York City by Ramona Hernández and Silvio Torres-Saillant
6. Mexicans in New York at a Crossroads in the Second Decade of the New Millennium by Robert Courtney Smith
7. Ecuadoreans and Colombians in New York by Javier Castaño
8. Central Americans in New York by Walker Simon and Rosalía Reyes
Part 3. Politics and Policy Issues
9. Puerto Rican and Latino Politics in New York: Still "Secondhand" Theory by José Ramón Sánchez
10. Latina/o Voting Rights in New York City by Juan Cartagena
11. Latinos and US Immigration Policy since IRCA: National Changes, Local Consequences by Sherrie Baver
12. Latino Core Communities in Transition: The Erasing of an Imaginary Nation by Ed Morales
13. Children First and Its Impact on Latino Students in New York City by Luz Yadira Herrera and Pedro A. Noguera
14. Latinos and Environmental Justice: New York City Cases by Sherrie Baver
15. Latino Politics in New York City: Challenges in the Twenty-First Century by Angelo Falcón
Conclusion
16. Nueva York, Diaspora City: Latinos Between and Beyond by Juan Flores
List of Contributors
