This study focuses on first and second generation Cubans, Dominican and Puerto Ricans living in the New York City area.

Latino Americans are key voters for US democracy. Democrats and Republicans actively court this demographic group, seeking their partisan identification. With analysis and research, this book delivers major findings.

"Gay Hegemony/ Latino Homosexualities "is an interdisciplinary project that weaves ethnographic interviewing with the analysis of texts and material culture to study the intersection of gayness with Latinidad. Unlike other academic treatments of the subject matter, it grounds its argument in an ethnoracial context and takes as point of departure that what needs to be studied explained is gayness not Latinidad. The book argues that gayness is a social formation structured by the racial distinction between blackness and whiteness in the United States and that, as such, the formation gayness is...

This ethnography gives voice to the experiences of Guatemalan women immigrants in the inner-city areas of Los Angeles. As recent, mostly undocumented, immigrants and refugess, these women are rarely presented to the public ear. Kohpahl traces the social and familial power relationships that play a role in these women's decisions to emigrate as well as their experiences of political persecution in Guatemala.

This work explores the competition for jobs between different Latin American immigrant groups in the US economy. While it has been widely established that many Cuban immigrants have found economic success in Miami and New Jersey, no previous work has examined the impact of this Cuban success on the well-being of Mexicans, Nicaraguans, Columbians, and other Central and South Americans in the United States. It is argued in this book that some of this success may have come at the expense of Mexicans, Nicaraguans, and other Central Americans who provide a cheap pool of labour for Latino...