Dear students,

We will follow the class schedule with minor changes. Students are responsible for "reviews" of the material for the exams. We won't have in-class reviews since we don't have the time to do so.

You must read each essay/chapter twice. The first time to get a general idea of its content, the second to take notes and rethink on the issues and ideas presented by the author(s).

Good luck and welcome to the class!

Felipe Pimentel

First Day: General introduction to the class and distribution of syllabus.

In the first class meeting we will discuss the format of the course and the basic requirements. I expect that by the end of this session all students will understand what we want to accomplish in the course. Hopefully, you will find that the syllabus is precise enough regarding exams, quizzes and other related questions.

Second Day: Read the Census Brief May 2001 that's attached to the syllabus plus the newspaper article by Eric Schmitt, Census Figures Show Hispanics Pulling Even With Blacks and the Census document on Race and Hispanics 2000 (click on the links): \

Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin

Readings: Other than the required books we will discuss a fair amount of materials that are on reserve (Hunter Library) and on the web (this web site or Blackboard). There are a number of chapters from two books (on reserve) that you need to read too:

1. G. Haslip-Viera and others (editors) Latinos in New York City  °

° Where to find Latinos in New York ? There 2 copies of the book on reserve and one copy at the Library of the Centro for Puerto Rican Studies (Third Floor). You need to take out the book to read the essays or make copies of the chapters.

2. Mary Romero et al. (editors) Challenging Fronteras, Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. #

#Where to find Challenging Fronteras? There are 3 copies of the book on reserve. You need to take out the book to read the essays or make copies of the chapters. There 2 copies of the book at the Library of the Centro for Puerto Rican Studies (Third Floor).

I. Latinos in America: the current situation

II. Identity and Ethnicity: Latinos or Hispanics?

Required Readings:

1. S. Oboler, Challenging Fronteras, Chapter 2 . The roots of Hispanic Homogenization pp. 31-54

2. Earl Shorris, Latinos: The Complexity of Identity (On reserve and on Blackboard)

3. Xavier Totti, The Making of a Latino Ethnic Identity (On reserve and on Blackboard)

Required Readings:

4. Challenging Fronteras: The Structuring of Hispanic Ethnicity...(Nelson   and Tienda) pp. 7-29

5. Examination of Census Table on "Hispanic Population 1998"

Supplementary Readings: (for this part)

1- Linda Robinson,Hispanics' don't exist

2- Martha E. Gimenez, Latinos/Hispanic (web site)

III. Latinos in New York City

Required Readings: 

1. Latinos in New York (Chapter 1), The Evolution of Latino Communities in New York by G. Haslip-Viera, (pages 3-29)

Supplementary Readings:

1.. Eugene Holley, The New Nueva York: How diverse Latino communities have changed the face of the city

 2. Susan Sachs Hispanic New York Shifted in 1990's

Required Readings: 

2. Latinos in New York (Chapter 7) E. Meléndez, Hispanics and wage.. (pages 189-210)

Supplementary Readings: (None)

B- Puerto Ricans

Required Readings

1. Challenging Fronteras (Chapter 5) Clara Rodríguez,. (pages 104-114)

2.Mireya Navarro, Puerto Rican Presence Wanes in New York

3-Angelo Falcon, Detras Pa'lante: The Future of Puerto Ricans in NYC, PDF format)

Supplementary Readings:

1- Angelo Falcon, Puerto Ricans: A Profile for the 1990s

2. Sonia Perez and Eric Rodríguez, PUSHING POVERTY

Required Readings

4. Philippe Bourgois, "From Jibaro to Crack Dealer: Confronting the restructuring of capitalism in El Barrio" (on Reserve-Library)

5.Challenging Fronteras (Chapter 9) Juan Flores, The Structuring of Puerto Rican Identity.. (pages 175-186)

Supplementary Readings:

1- Juan Flores,Nueva York, Diaspora City

C- Dominicans

Required Readings.

1. Latinos in New York ( Chapter 2) Ramona Hernández and S. Torres-Santillant, Dominicans in New York.... (pp. 30-56)

2. A Socioeconomic Profile of Dominicans in New York

3. Challenging Fronteras (Chapter 8) Luis Guarnizo, Los DominicanYorks (pp. 161-174)

Supplementary Reading: (none)

D- Colombians

Required Reading

1. Luis Guarnizo, Arturo I. Sánchez, & Elizabeth M. Roach, "Mistrust, Fragmented Solidarity, and Transnational Migration: Colombians in NewYork and Los Angeles" (On reserve and on Blackboard)

Supplementary Reading: None

E- Mexicans

Required Readings

1. Latinos in New York (Chapter 3) R. C. Smith, Mexicans in New York.. (pages 57- 103)

Supplementary Reading: Michael Kamber, Crossing to the Other Side: Toil and Temptation Highly recommended

IV. Latino immigrants in the United States

A. Latinos: The migration process from Central America and Mexico

Required Readings:

1.Challenging Fronteras .Central American Migration...(Chapter 4) pp. 81-100

Supplementary Readings:

Patricia Landolt, Salvadoran Transnationalism: Towards the Redefinition of The National Community

Required Readings: F. 11-9

2. Challenging Fronteras. The History of Mexican Undocumented... (Chapter 6) pp. 115-134

3. Challenging Fronteras. The Nicaraguan Exodus (Chapter 7) pp. 135-159

Supplementary Readings:

Michael Kamber, Crossing to the Other Side: Toil and Temptation

B. Enrique T. Trueba, Latinos Unidos: from Cultural Diversity to the Politics of Solidarity,

Supplementary Readings:

1. Stephen Sorensen et al., Increasing Hispanic Participation in Higher Education: A Desirable Public Investment  (PDF file)

V. Cubans in Florida: Politics, Culture, and the Economy

Required Readings:

1. Stepick, Miami's Cubans (on reserve and Blackboard)

2.Challenging Fronteras .The Politics of Language...(Chapter 16) pp. 279-296

3. 1. G. Grenier and M. Castro, Triadic Politics: Ethnicity, Race and Politics in Miami, 1959-1998 (on reserve-Library)

Supplementary Readings:

Best of Friends , Worlds Apart (on Black Cubans) by Mirta Ojito