Latino Participation in United States Politics

Hispanics/Latinos are the fastest growing and the second largest ethnic minority in the United States. They are concentrated in nine states which together control 75% of the electoral votes a candidate would need to win the presidency. The selected references listed here address the increasing political impact and potential of the Latino electorate and related issues. "Latinos," "Hispanics" or "Hispanic Americans" refer to those persons in the United States who are of Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, or other Latin American origin. The titles listed below represent a sampling of the literature on Latinos and politics published since the late 1980s.