This book brings together leading scholars in the study of the Latino population in the United States. The papers include: "Introduction: The Research Agenda" (Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco and Mariela M. Paez); (1) "`Y tu que?' (Y2K): Latino History in the New Millennium" (George J. Sanchez); (2) "Islands and Enclaves: Caribbean Latinos in Historical Perspective" (Juan Flores); (3) "Power and Identity: Miami Cubans" (Alex Stepick and Carol Dutton Stepick); (4) "Community Dynamics and the Rise of Street Gangs" (Diego Vigil); (5) "Gender, Ethnicity, and Race in School and Work Outcomes of Second-Generation Mexican Americans" (Robert C Smith); (6) "Unions and Latinos: Mutual Transformation" (John Trumpbour and Elaine Bernard); (7) "Two Nations under God? Latino Religious Life in the United States" (Peggy Levitt); (8) "Ambivalent Reception: Mass Public Responses to the `New' Latino Immigration to the United States" (Wayne A. Cornelius); (9) "Resurrecting Exclusion: The Effects of 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform on Communities and Families in Texas, El Salvador, and Mexico" (Jacqueline Hagan and Nestor Rodriguez); (10) "The Latino Health Research Agenda for the Twenty-First Century" (David E. Hayes-Bautista); (11) "Latinos' Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance" (E. Richard Brown and Hongjian Yu); (12) "Families on the Frontier: From Braceros in the Fields to Braceras in the Home" (Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo); (13) "Ambiguous Loss: Risk and Resilience in Latino Immigrant Families" (Celia Jaes Falicov); (14) "The Plasticity of Culture and Psychodynamic and Psychosocial Processes in Latino Immigrant Families" (Ricardo C. Ainslie); (15) "Bilingual Infants: Mapping the Research Agenda" (Barbara Zurer Pearson); (16) "Latin@ Languages and Identities" (Ana Celia Zentella); (17) "Learning English in California: Guideposts for the Nation" (Patricia Gandara); (18) "The Schooling of Latino Children" (Luis C. Moll and Richard Ruiz); (19) "Affirmative Action, X Percent Plans, and Latino Access to Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century" (Jorge Chapa); (20) "Forever Seen as New: Latino Participation in American Elections" (Louis DeSipio and Rodolfo O. de la Garza); (21) "Gender and Citizenship in Latino Political Participation" (Lisa J. Montoya); "Epilogue: Problematic Paradigms: Racial Diversity and Corporate Identity in the Latino Community" (Silvio Torres-Saillant); and "Afterword: American Projections" (Doris Sommer). Commentaries are presented by John H. Coatsworth, Merilee S. Grindle, Mary Waters, Paul Farmer, Carola Suarez-Orozco, Maria S. Carlo, Catherine E. Snow, Gary Orfield, and Jorge I. Dominguez. (Individual papers contain references.) (SM)