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.

"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."

• 1. Introduction: Why Study Latino Families?2. Demographic Trends: Past, Present, and Future3. How Have Latinos Been Studied?4. The Importance of Education5. Girlhood to Womanhood6. Boyhood to Manhood7. Physical and Mental Well-Being through Adulthood8. Public Service Systems as Sites of the Reproduction of Inequality9. Persistent Images and Changing Perceptions in the Twenty-First Century10. Capturing the Lives of Latinos in the United States: Advancing the Production of Critical Social Science KnowledgeReferencesIndex

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.

"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."

• 1. Introduction: Why Study Latino Families?2. Demographic Trends: Past, Present, and Future3. How Have Latinos Been Studied?4. The Importance of Education5. Girlhood to Womanhood6. Boyhood to Manhood7. Physical and Mental Well-Being through Adulthood8. Public Service Systems as Sites of the Reproduction of Inequality9. Persistent Images and Changing Perceptions in the Twenty-First Century10. Capturing the Lives of Latinos in the United States: Advancing the Production of Critical Social Science KnowledgeReferencesIndex

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.

"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."

• 1. Introduction: Why Study Latino Families?2. Demographic Trends: Past, Present, and Future3. How Have Latinos Been Studied?4. The Importance of Education5. Girlhood to Womanhood6. Boyhood to Manhood7. Physical and Mental Well-Being through Adulthood8. Public Service Systems as Sites of the Reproduction of Inequality9. Persistent Images and Changing Perceptions in the Twenty-First Century10. Capturing the Lives of Latinos in the United States: Advancing the Production of Critical Social Science KnowledgeReferencesIndex