PDF  Readings and Links....
 

Essentialism/Constructionism: Categories

Naming    What's in a Name
                 Hispanics? That's What they Call Us
                 Hispanic Latino Panethnicity
                 Label Debates                          

Latinos & Society 
New Braceros on the Farm

MasCarras   
Reading 1
Reading 2
Reading 3

Ethnicity, Class, Race in US      [read and annotate article & bring to class!]

Gangs    [read and annotate article & bring to class!]

Census Bureau Publications
    Census Bureau News Room (current press releases by the US Census on all kinds of topics)

    The Hispanic Population in the United States: March 2002 (Issued June 2003)

    We the People: Hispanics in the United States (Issued December 2004)
Library linked articles.....
Identity
Latina Liberation
Chicano Indianism: Historical Account of Racial Repression in the US
Latinas and Work Readings
Transnational Motherhood
Paid Child Care
Migration Ins and Outs
The Power of Imagined Community:Settlement of Undocumented Mexicans and Central Americans in the US

Stereotypes:  Article can be found "online" through SMC's Library
The Stereotype Trap by Sharon Begley by Sharon Begley  (EBSCO)
Racial Representation of Computer Users in Prime-Time Advertising by K. Kinnick, C. White, K. Washington (Ethnic News Watch)
Wetback: http://kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu/Dictionary/wetback.htm

Black/White Paradigm
"Race Matters?