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La Nueva California: Latinos from Pioneers to Post-Millennials

A vivid and energetic portrait of Latino society in California, details about work ethic, family strengths, businesses, and health profile.

Book Author

David E. Hayes-Bautista

Publisher

University of California Press

Language

English

ISBN

978-0520292536

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

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Since late 2001 more than fifty percent of the babies born in California have been Latino, and when they reach adulthood, they will, by sheer force of numbers, influence the course of the Golden State. This essential study, based on decades of data, paints a vivid and energetic portrait of Latino society in California by providing a wealth of details about work ethic, family strengths, business establishments, and the surprisingly robust health profile that yields an average life expectancy for Latinos five years longer than that of the general population. Spanning one hundred years, this complex, fascinating analysis suggests that the future of Latinos in California will be neither complete assimilation nor unyielding separatism. Instead, the development of a distinctive regional identity will be based on Latino definitions of what it means to be American. This updated edition now provides trend lines through the 2010 Census as well as information on the 1849 California Constitutional Convention and the ethnogenesis of how Latinos created the society of “Latinos de Estados Unidos” (Latinos in the US). The two new chapters focus on Latino Post-Millennials—the first focusing on what it’s like to grow up in a digital world; and the second describing the contestation of Latinos at a national level and the dynamics that transnational relationships have on Latino Post-Millennials in Mexico and Central America.

About the Author:
David E. Hayes-Bautista

David E. Hayes-Bautista, Ph.D. is currently Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley, and completed his doctoral work in Basic Sciences at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco. Dr. Hayes-Bautista served on the faculty at the School of Public Health at U.C. Berkeley until 1987, when he took his current position at UCLA. Dr. Hayes-Bautista’s research appears in a variety of medical journals including Family Medicine, the American Journal of Public Health, Family Practice, Academic Medicine and Salud Pública de México. Some of his published books include The Burden of Support: Young Latinos in an Aging Society (Stanford University Press, 1988), El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition (University of California Press, 2012) and La Nueva California: Latinos from Pioneers to Post Millennials (University of California Press, 2017.) Dr. Hayes-Bautista writes columns for the Los Angeles Times and La Opinion, and is often asked to provide opinions on radio and television in both Spanish and English. For the past five years, he has been chosen one of the 101 Top Leaders of the Latino Community in the U.S. by Latino Leaders Magazine. In 2012, he received the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Herbert W. Nickens Award for his lifelong concerns about the educational, societal, and health care needs of underrepresented groups, and in 2016 the Ohtli Award from the Mexican Government.




Reviews/Quotes

REVIEWS: 1. "Latinos have made and remade the state. In La Nueva California we have a book that does justice to the complexity of one of the great journeys in the American tradition." -Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Dean, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. 2. "In this book, we learn the unvarnished truth of yesterday, which helps to illuminate the unbridled path of tomorrow." -Carmela Castellano-Garcia, President and CEO, California Primary Care Association 3. "David E. Hayes-Bautista is able to foretell the future of a community that has always been a part of the success story of the United States and that is essential to its future." -Gabriela Teissier, journalist and news anchor, Univision 4. "Hayes-Bautista provides first-rate scholarship and analysis for understanding the vital role that Latinos have long played in shaping the fabric of our nation." -Kevin Richardson, Pepperdine University Graduate School of Public Policy and mayor, village of Lake Barrington, Illinois "Are Latinos American? Can Latinos ever be American? Do Latinos even want to be American? In 2000, I set out to answer those questions." "Yet since 1849, Latinos in California have proclaimed their adherence to a universalist vision of an America built on equality, freedom, and democracy, even when confronted by the nativist vision that has tried repeatedly to exclude them from the community of Americans. As of 2015, a Latino-post millennial born in the US turns eighteen approximately every thirty seconds, and officially enters adulthood. In those same thirty seconds, approximately two non-Hispanic whites die. The "habits of the Latino heart" are becoming an increasingly larger part of society, and the electorate, every day. The tug-of-war between nativist exclusiveness and universalist inclusion may well be decided by Latino post-millennials in the struggle for America's soul in the twenty-first century.

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Book Author

David E. Hayes-Bautista

Publisher

University of California Press

Language

English

ISBN

978-0520292536

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

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