Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction - Joan Moore and Raquel Pinderhughes
1. Puerto Ricans in Sunset Park, Brooklyn: Poverty Amidst Ethnic and Economic Diversity - Mercer L. Sullivan
2. Barrios in Transition - Joan Moore and James Diego Vigil
3. Central Americans in Los Angeles: An Immigrant Community in Transition - Norma Chinchilla, Nora Hamilton, and James Loucky
4. Cubans in Miami - Alex Stepick III and Guillermo Grenier
5. Economic Restructuring and Latino Growth in Houston - Nestor P. Rodriguez
6. The Quest for Community: Puerto Ricans in Chicago - Felix M. Padilla
7. Historical Poverty, Restructuring Effects, and Integrative Ties: Mexican American Neighborhoods in a Peripheral Sunbelt Economy - Phillip B. Gonzales
8. Persistent Poverty, Crime, and Drugs: U.S.-Mexican Border Region - Avelardo Valdez
9. U.S. Mexicans in the Borderlands: Being Poor Without the Underclass - Carlos Velez-Ibanez
Bibliography
Index