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Latinos
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  1. Resource Shares of the Three Latino Subpopulations
    1. Poverty levels of Latinos
    2. Income of Latinos
    3. Occupational distribution of Latinos
    4. Educational attainment for Latinos
    5. The life span of Latinos
    6. The housing of Latinos

  2. Mexican Americans
    1. The identifiability of Chicanos
    2. The history of Mexican Americans
      1. Early history—the conquest of Mexicans in the Southwest
      2. Mexican Americans in the first half of the twentieth century
      3. Negative beliefs about Chicanos
    3. The dynamics of discrimination against Mexican Americans
      1. Economic discrimination
      2. Mexican Americans in the second half of the twentieth century
      3. Legal discrimination
        1. the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
        2. the abuses of enforcement agencies
      4. Educational discrimination
        1. the cultural conflict of Mexican-origin children
        2. the dilemma of language in schools
        3. the alienation of Mexican Americans from schools
      5. Political discrimination
    4. The stratification of the Mexican-origin population
      1. The threats that they are perceived to pose
      2. The intensification of negative stereotypes
      3. The new forms of discrimination and stratification

  3. Puerto Ricans
    1. A brief history of Puerto Ricans' citizenship status
    2. Identifiability of Puerto Ricans
    3. The dynamics of discrimination against Puerto Ricans
      1. Economic discrimination
      2. Legal discrimination
      3. Educational discrimination
      4. Political discrimination
    4. The stratification of Puerto Ricans in the Northeast

  4. Cuban Americans
    1. A brief history of their arrival in America
    2. The special status and privilege of Cuban immigrants
    3. Negative beliefs about Cuban Americans
      1. The positive elements in beliefs
      2. The recent turn toward more negative beliefs
    4. The dynamics of discrimination against Cuban Americans
      1. Economic discrimination
        1. the prosperous side
        2. the more recent problems
      2. Educational discrimination
        1. the success of Cubans
        2. the problems of more recent immigrants
      3. Political discrimination
        1. the early success in mobilizing power
        2. the non-Latino backlash
    5. The stratification of Cuban Americans
      1. Their place as the most successful Latino population
      2. The high degree of internal stratification within the Cuban population
      3. The lower-class positions of recent immigrants

  5. Summary




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