1. What is the main focus of Mike Davis’ Magical Urbanism?
2. What factors explain the rapid growth of the Latino population in the US?
3. What is the complex relationship between Latinos and African-Americans as the largest minorities in the US?
4. What symbols are being used by Mexican immigrants to reaffirm their ethnic and national identities?
5. What is the specific meaning of latinidad in the United States according to Davis’ book?
6. How Davis’ book conceptualizes ethnic identities?
7. Can you explain the paradoxical processes that are taking place in the "border" between Mexico and the US?
8. Which are the ecological problems that the so-called border’s Siamese twins share?
9. Can you compare the social situation of Latinos in Los Angeles and New York?
10. What is the meaning of the so-called "third border"?
11. Why entire immigrant communities have become effectively transnationalized?
12. What is the position of the Latino immigrants on the US labor market?
13. Why Puerto Ricans (one of the poorest among Latino groups) have experienced downward socioeconomic mobility?
14. Why so many Anglos in America today are opposed to cultural and linguistic diversity?
15. Can you explain the relative low electoral participation rate of some Latino groups?
16. What would be the social and economic effects of the Latino demographic increases?
17. What are the meanings of Dominicanyork or Nuyorrican in Davis’ book?
18. What are the so-called maquiladoras?
19. What is happening at the US-Mexico border in the age of globalization and NAFTA?
20. What are the educational consequences of "biculturalism" for Latino students?
21. What are the US educational institutions doing regarding the Latino population?
22. What Latino workers are doing in the organized labor movement?
23. What is the economic situation of most Latino households?
24. Why "Latinization" is a key concept used by Davis to explain how the US is being transformed?
25. Why the new Latino immigration is an urban phenomenon rather
than a rural one?