The Latino Studies Reader
Subtitle: Culture, Economy, and Society
Contributors: Antonia Darder (Editor); Rodolfo D. Torres (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: January 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781557869869
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Politics/International Relations; Hispanic Americans In The U.S.; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies; Latin America - General; Ethnic Studies - General; Hispanic Americans
First sentence: In an era of increasing global interconnections, interdependence, and economic integration among nations and regions, paying due attention to the US Hispanic heritage, to the increasing presence of Latinos in the United States, and to the existing transnational linkages that (im)migrant groups maintain with their Latin American or Caribbean countries of origin, immediately suggests new challenges and changes in our conventional interpretations of the history and culture of the Americas, both North and South.