Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States analyzes the changing construction of race and ethnicity in the United States through the lens of contemporary Jewish immigrants from Latin America. Since Latino Jews are not easily classified within the U.S. racial and ethnic schema, their ethnic identity and group affiliation challenge existing paradigms.

As the Latino population continues to grow in the United States, so does the influence of millions of Latinos on U.S. culture, politics, economy, and social structure. Kugel and Frijoles offers new insight with which to understand the diversity of Latinos, the incorporation of contemporary Jewish immigrants, and the effect of U.S. ethno-racial structures for immigrant assimilation.

 

About the Author

Lau­ra Limon­ic is an assis­tant pro­fes­sor of soci­ol­o­gy at the Col­lege of Old West­bury of the State Uni­ver­si­ty of New York. Her research is in the area of con­tem­po­rary immi­gra­tion to the Unit­ed States and the inte­gra­tion tra­jec­to­ries of eth­nic and eth­no-reli­gious groups.