| Description |
xxxix, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-241) and index. |
| Contents |
Puerto Ricans in Sunset Park, Brooklyn: poverty amidst ethnic and economic diversity / Mercer L. Sullivan -- Barrios in transition / Joan Moore and James Diego Vigil -- Central Americans in Los Angeles: an immigrant community in transition / Norma Chinchilla, Nora Hamilton, and James Loucky -- Cubans in Miami / Alex Stepick III and Guillermo Grenier -- Economic restructuring and |
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Latino growth in Houston / Nestor P. Rodriguez -- The Quest for community: Puerto Ricans in Chicago / Felix M. Padilla -- Historical poverty, restructuring effects, and integrative ties: Mexican American neighborhoods in a peripheral sunbelt economy / Phillip B. Gonzales -- Persistent poverty, crime and drugs: U.S.-Mexican border region / Avelardo Valdez -- U.S. Mexicans in the |
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borderlands: being poor without the underclass / Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez. |
| Subject |
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-
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Hispanic Americans -- Economic conditions.
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Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions.
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Poor -- United States.
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| Local Subject |
Poor people -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Moore, Joan W.
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Pinderhughes, Raquel.
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| ISBN |
0871546124 hardcover $49.95 |
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0871546132 paperback $14.95 |
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