Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Changing the Americas from Within the United States; 1 Dependence or Interdependence: Issues and Policy Choices Facing Latin Americans and Latinos; Part 1 Global Interdependence; 2 Interdependence, Inequality, and Identity: Linking Latinos and Latin Americans; 3 Trading Places: U.S. Latinos and Trade Liberalization in the Americas; 4 The Transnationalization of Immigration Policy; Part II The Reconfigured United States; 5 The Burden of Interdependence: Demographic, Economic, and Social Prospects for Latinos in the Reconfigured U.S. Economy
6 From Estrangement to Affinity: Dilemmas of Identity Among Hispanic Children7 The Economic Development of El Barrio; Part III The Politics and Identity of Diaspora; 8 1995 -- Terreno Peligroso/Danger Zone: Cultural Relations Between Chicanos and Mexicans at the End of the Century; 9 Visions of Dominicanness in the United States; 10 The Legacy of Conquest and Discovery: Meditations on Ethnicity, Race, and American Politics; 11 T
Summary
Over the past several decades, Latinos in the United States have emerged as strategic actors in major processes of social transformation