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Cuantos somos: a demographic study of the Mexican American population
Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin • (2) • Published In 1977 • Pages: xvi, 238
By: Teller, Charles H., Estrada, Leo F., Hernández, José, Alvírez, David, Rodríez, Romeo, Bean, Frank D., Bradshaw, Benjamin S., Roberts, Robert E., Cardenas, Gilbert, Cooney, Rosemary Santana, Singelmann, Joachim.
Abstract
This collection are essays provides a thorough examination of demographic methodological research issues in the study of Chicanos, as well as a wealth of data concerning fertility and mortality, migration, and labor force participation. The published results of a Conference on Mexican American demography, it fills a long-standing gap in the literature on Chicanos.
- Subjects
- Population
- Composition of population
- Historical and archival research
- Information sources listed in other works
- Reviews and critiques
- Birth statistics
- Conception
- Mortality
- External migration
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- culture
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document Type
- collection
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Sociologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- M. A. Marcus ; 1986
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1869-1973
- Coverage Place
- United States
- Notes
- Edited by Charles H. Teller, Leo F. Estrada, José Hernández and David Alvírez
- Community-oriented demography: toward a micro-structural approach to the study of ethnic populations / Leo F. Estrada and Charles H. Teller --Using census data to study Spanish heritage populations of the United States / Leo F. Estrada, José Hernández and David Alvírez --A comparison of persons of Spanish origin and persons of Spanish surname in the United States using the March 1971 current population survey / Edward Fernandez --Annotated bibliography on the demography of the Mexican American population, with commentary/ Charles H. Teller and Romeo rodríguez --Mexican American fertility / Frank D. Bean and Benjamin S. Bradshaw --The study of mortality in the Mexican American population / Robert E. Roberts -- Mexican labor: a view to conceptualizing the effects of migration, immigration and the Chicano population in the United States / Gilbert Cardenas -- The Mexican American female in the labor force / Rosemary Santana Cooney -- Mexican Americans in the Southwest labor force: some preliminary findings/ Joachim Singelmann -- Chicano demography: where we were, are, and hope to be / José Hernández
- Papers presented at the Conference on the Demographic Study of the Mexican American Population, held at the University of Texas at Austin, May 17-19, 1973
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 77093093
- LCSH
- Mexican Americans