The Latino/a American dream [electronic resource] / edited by Sandra L. Hanson and John Kenneth White. - First edition. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2016] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Sandra L. Hanson and John Kenneth White -- Whose dream?: US presidents, Hispanics, and the struggle for the American future / John Kenneth White -- DREAM-ing the American dream: the struggle to enact the DREAM Act / Matthew Green -- "The American dream": walking toward and deporting it / Daniel Martinez, Jeremy Slack, Alex E. Chavez, and Scott Whiteford -- Hispanics and the American dream: lessons from the experiences of Hispanics across nationalities residing in Washington, DC / Enrique S. Pumar -- The color of the dream: Latino/as, African Americans, and the American dream / Steven A. Tuch -- From the margins to the center: the US Catholic bishops, Latino/as, and the American dream in the twentieth century / Maria Mazzenga and Todd Scribner -- Changing for the dream?: Latino/a religious change and socioeconomic success / Jessica Hamar Martinez and Phillip Connor -- Latino/a, American, dream: men, women / Sandra L. Hanson -- Conclusion / Sandra L. Hanson and John Kenneth White.

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American Dream.
Hispanic American women--Social conditions--21st century.
Hispanic Americans--Social conditions--21st century.


Electronic books.

E184.S75 / L3548 2016

305.868/073