Excerpt

This volume, which serves as a companion to Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the American Future (National Research Council, 2006), provides detailed analyses using multiple sources to characterize this dynamic, eclectic population from multiple perspectives; to evaluate whether and in what ways Hispanics are distinctive from other immigrant and minority groups; and to assess the social integration prospects of recent arrivals and their descendants. Collectively, the volume documents how the growing Hispanic presence is being felt in schools, in workplaces, at the ballot box, and in health care systems throughout the nation.

Contents

• The National Academies
• Panel on Hispanics in the United States
• Committee on Population
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction: E Pluribus Plures or E Pluribus Unum?
  Marta Tienda and Faith Mitchell.
  • THE HISPANIC POPULATION IN NUMBERS
  • FAMILY, SCHOOL, AND WORK
  • HEALTH STATUS AND HEALTH CARE
  • CIVIC AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT
  • RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT
  • REFERENCE
• 2. The Making of a People
  Rubén G. Rumbaut.
  • THE MAKING OF A CATEGORY
  • THE MAKING OF A PAST
  • THE MAKING OF A PORTRAIT
  • CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
• 3. The Demographic Foundations of the Latino Population
  Jorge Durand, Edward Telles, and Jennifer Flashman.
  • COMPONENTS OF GROWTH
  • ORIGINS OF LATIN AMERICAN IMMIGRATION
  • THE FUTURE
  • CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
• 4. Redrawing Spatial Color Lines: Hispanic Metropolitan Dispersal, Segregation, and Economic Opportunity
  Mary J. Fischer and Marta Tienda.
  • RESIDENTIAL DISPERSION AND METROPOLITANIZATION
  • METROPOLITAN DIVERSIFICATION AND MULTIETHNIC SEGREGATION
  • SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION OF URBAN SPACES
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • REFERENCES
• 5. Hispanic Families in the United States: Family Structure and Process in an Era of Family Change
  Nancy S. Landale, R. Salvador Oropesa, and Christina Bradatan.
  • TRENDS IN FAMILY LIFE AMONG HISPANICS
  • CURRENT FAMILY PATTERNS: VARIATION BY ETHNICITY AND GENERATION
  • RACIAL/ETHNIC MIXING IN SEXUAL PARTNERSHIPS
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • REFERENCES
• 6. Barriers to Educational Opportunities for Hispanics in the United States
  Barbara Schhneider, Sylvia Martinez, and Ann Ownes.
  • TAKING THE FIRST STEPS: ACTIVITIES AT HOME
  • ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN THE PRIMARY GRADES, MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND HIGH SCHOOL
  • TAKING THE NEXT STEPS
  • REFERENCES
• 7. Hispanics in the U.S. Labor Market
  Brian Duncan, V. Joseph Hotz, and Stephen J. Trejo.
  • THE CURRENT SCENE: THE LABOR MARKET ATTAINMENT OF HISPANICS
  • LIFE-CYCLE PATTERNS IN LABOR MARKET EXPERIENCES AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR LIFE-CYCLE WAGE GROWTH
  • TEMPORAL AND GENERATIONAL CHANGES IN THE LABOR MARKET ATTAINMENT OF HISPANICS
  • CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
• 8. Economic Well-Being
  Cordelia Reimers.
  • WORKING-AGE HISPANIC HOUSEHOLDS
  • ELDERLY HISPANICS
  • SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
  • DATA AND METHODS
  • REFERENCES
• 9. The Health Status and Health Behaviors of Hispanics
  José J. Escarce, Leo S. Morales, and Rubén G. Rumbaut.
  • MORTALITY
  • THE HEALTH AND HEALTH BEHAVIORS OF HISPANIC ADULTS
  • THE HEALTH AND HEALTH BEHAVIORS OF HISPANIC YOUTH
  • BIRTH OUTCOMES
  • THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PARADOX
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • REFERENCES
• 10. Access to and Quality of Health Care
  José J. Escarce and Kanika Kapur.
  • ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
  • QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE
  • CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
• 11. Latino Civic and Political Participation
  Louis DeSipio.
  • THE FOUNDATIONS OF A U.S. LATINO POLITICS: SHARED EXPERIENCE AND COMMON INTERESTS
  • THE LATINO POLITICAL FUTURE
  • REFERENCES
• Appendices
  • A Contents
  • B Biographical Sketches of Contributors

This study was supported by Contract No. N01-OD-4-2139, TO #123 between the National Academy of Sciences and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Cancer Institute, the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health; the U.S. Census Bureau; the National Center for Health Statistics; the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California HealthCare Foundations, and the California Endowment.

Suggested citation:

National Research Council (2006). Hispanics and the Future of America. Panel on Hispanics in the United States. Marta Tienda and Faith Mitchell, eds. Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.