Bøker av Rodney E. Hero

A nuanced and insightful assessment of Latino life in America

Examines school systems in four major US cities - Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco - to uncover the factors that worked for and against ethnically-representative school change. This book utilizes the politics of education reform to provide empirical scholarship about the broader contemporary politics of race and ethnicity.

Latinos in the New Millennium is a comprehensive profile of Latinos in the United States: looking at their social characteristics, group relations, policy positions and political orientations. The authors draw on information from the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS), the largest and most detailed source of data on Hispanics in America. This book provides essential knowledge about Latinos, contextualizing research data by structuring discussion around many dimensions of Latino political life in the US. The encyclopedic range and depth of the LNS allows the authors to appraise Latinos' group characteristics, attitudes, behaviors and their views on numerous topics. This study displays the complexity of Latinos, from recent immigrants to those whose grandparents were born in the United States.

How has the arrival of new racial and ethnic groups affected the political gains of long-standing minorities in the United States? This book examines how the arrival of newcomers has affected the efforts of long-standing minority groups - Blacks, Latinos, and Asian Pacific Americans - to gain equality through political representation and power.