Hispanics and the Future of America or Slavery and the British Empire

Hispanics and the Future of America

Author: Marta Tienda

Hispanics and the Future of America presents details of the complex story of a population that varies in many dimensions, including national origin, immigration status, and generation. The papers in this volume draw on a wide variety of data sources to describe the contours of this population, from the perspectives of history, demography, geography, education, family, employment, economic well-being, health, and political engagement. They provide a source of information for researchers, policy makers, and others who want to better understand the fast-growing and diverse population that we call "Hispanic."

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction : E Pluribus Plures or E Pluribus Unum?	1
2	The making of a people	16
3	The demographic foundations of the Latino population	66
4	Redrawing spatial color lines : Hispanic metropolitan dispersal, segregation, and economic opportunity	100
5	Hispanic families in the United States : family structure and process in an era of family change	138
6	Barriers to educational opportunities for Hispanics in the United States	179
7	Hispanics in the U.S. labor market	228
8	Economic well-being	291
9	The health status and health behaviors of Hispanics	362
10	Access to and quality of health care	410
11	Latino civic and political participation	447
App	Contents : multiple origins, uncertain destinies : Hispanics and the American future	481

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Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America

Author: Oxford University Press

Slavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic history, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world and the plantations of North America and the West Indies from the mid-seventeenth century onwards.

Kenneth Morgan analyses the distribution of slaves within the empire and how this changed over time; the world of merchants and planters; the organization and impact of the triangular slave trade; the work and culture of the enslaved; slave demography; health and family life; resistance and rebellions; the impact of the anti-slavery movement; and the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 and of slavery itself in most of the British empire in 1834.

As well as providing the ideal introduction to the history of British involvement in the slave trade, this book also shows just how deeply embedded slavery was in British domestic and imperial history - and just how long it took for British involvement in slavery to die, even after emancipation.