Product Description: Following the pattern of two prior volumes on presidential election cycles, Ethnic Ironies and From Rhetoric to Reality, and Latino political participation, this new work examines the Latino impact on 1996 presidential campaign and election and Latino efforts to shape electoral outcomes...read more

Product Description: Latinos, along with other new immigrants, are not being incorporated into U.S. politics as rapidly as their predecessors, raising concerns about political fragmentation along ethnic lines. In Counting on the Latino Vote, Louis DeSipio uses the first national studies of Latinos to investigate whether they engage in bloc voting or are likely to do so in the future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Immigration policy has defined the United States as few other nations on earth. The central political dilemma is how we define who we should admit as a resident and who may become a citizen. These investigations lead us to the questions of how many immigrants we should admit, what traits these immigrants should have, and what standards we should set for naturalization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A social and demographic portrait of Latino legal immigrants to the USA, comparing and contrasting them with the broader Latino population and discussing the experiences of Latinos from Central and South America.

Product Description: Book by de la Garza, Rodolfo O., Menchaca, Martha, DeSipio, Louis

Product Description: Presents a comparative analysis of Latino political participation in a national US election. The data shows the extent to which Latino communities are integrated into national politics and offers an analysis for future study of the important role of Latinos in the American political process...read more