African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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250 p, Drawing from a wide spectrum of disciplines, the essays in this collection examine in different national contexts the consequences of the "Latin American multicultural turn" in Afro Latino social movements of the past two decades.
Molinas Vega, Jose R. (Author), Barros, Ricardo Paes de (Author), Saavedra Chanduvi, Jaime (Author), Giugale, Marcelo (Author), Cord, Louise J. (Author), Pessino, Carola (Author), and Hasan, Amer (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2012
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Washington,DC: World Bank
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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154 p, This book assesses the status and evolution of human opportunity in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC). It builds on the 2008 publication, "Measuring Inequality of Opportunity," in several directions. First, it uses newly-available data to expand the set of opportunities and personal circumstances under analysis. The data is representative of some 200 million children living in 19 countries over the last 15 years. Second, it compares human opportunity in LAC with that of developed countries, among them the U.S. and France, two very different models of social policy.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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154 p., Assesses the status and evolution of human opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It uses data representative of some 200 million children living in 19 countries over the last 15 years. Compares human opportunity in LAC with that of developed countries, among them the U.S. and France, two very different models of social policy.
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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323 p., Despite sustained economic growth at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, Latin America and the Caribbean still faces high inequality and weak indicators of well-being among certain population groups. Women, people of African ancestry, and indigenous peoples are often at the bottom of the income distribution. The share of female-headed households rose in the past 20 years. By the beginning of the 1990s, women headed 1.2 percent of complete households (households in which both husband and wife are present) and 79.8 percent of single- head households. This book presents a regional overview of gender and ethnic disparities in labor earnings during this last turn of the century. Latin America and the Caribbean provide a rich environment for studying social inequality, because historical inequalities along gender and ethnic lines persist, despite positive indicators of economic development.
Boston, Mass; Enfield : Publishers Group UK distributor], Projected Date: Beacon; 201203
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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After peaking at 27 percent of all major leaguers in 1975, African Americans now make up less than one-tenth--a decline unimaginable in other men's pro sports. The number of Latin Americans, by contrast, has exploded to over one-quarter of all major leaguers and roughly half of those playing in the minors. Ruck explains that integration cost black and Caribbean societies control over their own sporting lives, changing the meaning of the sport, but not always for the better. While it channeled black and Latino athletes into major league baseball, integration did little for the communities they left behind.
