| 书目名称 | Latinas/os in the United States | | 副标题 | Changing the Face of | | 编辑 | Havidán Rodríguez,Rogelio Sáenz,Cecilia Menjívar | | 视频video | | | 概述 | The book is unique from extant books that have focused on the Latino/a population.This book goes beyond the traditional approach of only focusing on the largest Latino/a groups.It has a multidisciplin | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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 a | | 出版日期 | Textbook 2008 | | 关键词 | Demography; Diversity; Higher Education; Mental Health; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Nation; Public | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71943-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-0-387-71942-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-0-387-71943-6 | | copyright | Springer-Verlag US 2008 |
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