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  1. Resource Shares of Latinos
    1. Poverty levels of Latinos
    2. Income of Latinos
    3. Occupational distribution of Latinos
    4. Educational attainment of Latinos
    5. Life span of Latinos
    6. Housing of Latinos

  2. Mexican Americans
    1. Identifiability of Chicanos
    2. The history of Mexican Americans: conquest, displacement, and exploitation
      1. Early history: the conquest—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. 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. brief history of Puerto Ricans' citizenship status
    2. Identifiability of Puerto Ricans
    3. Negative beliefs about Puerto Ricans
    4. The dynamics of discrimination against Puerto Ricans
      1. Economic discrimination
      2. Legal discrimination
      3. discrimination
      4. discrimination
    5. Stratification of Puerto Ricans

  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. Legal discrimination
        1. limited involvement with U.S. legal system
        2. impact of 1980 Mariel boatlifts
      3. Educational discrimination
        1. the success of Cubans
        2. the problems of more recent immigrants
      4. Political discrimination
        1. the early success in mobilizing power
        2. the non-Latino backlash
    5. 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

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  6. Points of debate





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