Description:
Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in the United States to demonstrate how national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and education affect the well-being of families and individuals.
Brief description: Ruth Enid Zambrana is Professor of Women's Studies and Director of the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland. She is coauthor of Drawing from the Data: Working Effectively with Latino Families, editor of Understanding Latino Families, and coeditor of Health Issues in the Latino Community and Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice.
Review Quotes:
"The unique strengths of this superbly written and much-needed book lie in its up-to-date coverage and synthesis of the research, scholarship, and theorizing on the Latino population in the United States. Ruth E. Zambrana addresses the key debates, current principles, and central approaches in the interdisciplinary study of Latinos."
--Maxine Baca Zinn, Michigan State University, author of Diversity in Families