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The Demography of African Americans 1930–1990

By: S.H. Preston,I.T. Elo,Mark E. Hill,Ira Rosenwaike

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The Demography of African Americans 1930–1990

By: S.H. Preston,I.T. Elo,Mark E. Hill,Ira Rosenwaike

The authors of this work use a novel strategy that combines record linkage and demographic/statistical analysis to produce an internally consistent and robust set of estimates of the African-American population during the period 1930-1990. They interpret the record that emerges, with special reference to longevity trends and differentials. This work is for demographers, sociologists and students of ethnic studies.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401703256

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9789401703253

Mortality of Hispanic Populations

Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans in the United States and in the Home Countries

By: Ira Rosenwaike

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Mortality of Hispanic Populations

Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans in the United States and in the Home Countries

By: Ira Rosenwaike

Hispanics in the United States, numbering 22.4 million at the 1990 census, are the nation's second largest and fastest growing minority population. Although recent studies have increased our knowledge of the demographic characteristics and culture of this multiethnic population, until now there has been no comprehensive discussion of the Hispanic mortality experience, a potential key to assessing the relative health status of Spanish-origin subgroups in American society. Addressing the pressing need for more accurate, current, and comprehensive data for specific ethnic groups, this volume presents coherent research on the mortality patterns of the three largest Hispanic subgroups and, in the process, helps dispel many anecdotal or romanticized notions about Hispanic health and illness. The experts represented in this book present mortality data in five basic categories: mortality in the countries of origin; comparative mortality among Spanish-origin groups in the United States; specific causes of mortality among Spanish-origin populations; analysis of mortality data based on surname statistics; and an overview of mortality among migrants to this country as compared to patterns of death in the countries of origin. They suggest an Hispanic pattern of mortality, characterized by relatively low rates for the three leading causes of death and relatively high rates for selected causes, such as cirrhosis of the liver and homicide. The contributors also examine cultural and demographic intragroup differences. Their findings indicate that lifestyle, environmental and social factors, and genetic influences, must all be considered in accounting for mortality differences between the Mexican-born, Puerto Rican-born, Cuban-born, and non-Hispanics. Of the more than 80 tables in this book, many are based on unpublished vital statistics tabulations and are presented for the first time. The quantity and quality of data, the range of comparisons and analyses, together with the demographic overview, offer researchers an important resource for further studies on the interrelationship of migration, acculturation, minority status, and mortality. At the same time, the findings indicate trends and patterns in mortality among Hispanic subgroups in the United States that have important implications for public health and policy planners.

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Praeger

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0313275009

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9780313275005

City Trenches

By: Ira Katznelson

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City Trenches

By: Ira Katznelson

The urban crisis of the 1960s revived a dormant social activism whose protagonists placed their hoped for radical change and political effectiveness in community action. Ironically, the insurgents chose the local community as their terrain for a political battle that in reality involved a few strictly local issues. They failed to achieve their goals, Ira Katznelson argues, not so much because they had chosen their ground badly but because the deep split of the American political landscape into workplace politics and community politics defeats attempts to address grievances or raise demands that break the rules of bread-and-butter unionism on the one hand or of local politics on the other. A fascinating record of the encounter between today’s reformers—the community activists—and the powers they challenge. City Trenches is also a probing analysis of the causes of urban instability. Katznelson anatomizes the unique workings of the American urban system which allow it to contain opposition through “machine” politics and, as a last resort, institutional innovation and co-optation, for example, the authorities’ own version of decentralization used in the 1960s as a counter to a “community control.” Washington Heights–Inwood, a multi-ethnic working-class community in northern Manhattan, provides the setting for an absorbing close-up view of the historical evolution of local politics: the challenge to the system in the 1960s and its reconstitution in the 1970s.

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Pantheon

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0307833402

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9780307833402

The Demography of African Americans 1930–1990

By: S.H. Preston,I.T. Elo,Mark E. Hill,Ira Rosenwaike

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By: S.H. Preston,I.T. Elo,Mark E. Hill,Ira Rosenwaike

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The Demography of African Americans 1930–1990

The Demography of African Americans 1930–1990

Mortality of Hispanic Populations

Mortality of Hispanic Populations

City Trenches

City Trenches

The Demography of African Americans 1930–1990

The Demography of African Americans 1930–1990

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