Racial and Ethnic Groups by Richard T. Schaefer
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| Borderlands | The area of a common culture along the border between Mexico and the United States.
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| Brain Drain | Immigration to the United States of skilled workers, professionals,and technicians who are desperately needed by their home countries.
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| Color Gradient | The placement of people on a continuum from light to dark skin color rather than in distinct racial groupings by skin color.
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| Dry Foot, Wet Foot | Policy toward Cuban immigrants that allows those who manage to reach the United States(dry foot) to remain but sends those who are picked up at sea(wet foot) back to Cuba.
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| Hometown Clubs | Nonprofit organizations that maintain close ties to immigrants' hometowns in Mexico and other Latin American countries.
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| Maquiladoras | Foreign-owned companies on the Mexican side of the border with the United States.
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| Marielitos | People who arrived from Cuba in the third wave of Cuban immigration, most specifically those forcibly deported by way of Mariel Harbor. The term is generally reserved for refugees seen as especially undesirable.
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| Panethnicity | The development of solidarity between ethnic subgroups, as reflected in the terms Hispanic and Asian American.
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| Remittances | The monies that immigrants return to their countries of origin.
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| Transnationals | Immigrants who sustain multiple social relationships that link their societies of origin and settlement.
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| Braceros | Contracted Mexican Laborers brought to the United States during World War II.
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| Chicanismo | An ideology emphasizing pride and positive identity among Mexican Americans.
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| Culture of Poverty | A way of life that involves no future planning, no enduring commitment to marriage, and no work ethic; this culture follows the poor even when they move out of the slums or the barrio.
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| Curanderismo | Hispanic Folk medicine
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| Familism | Pride and closeness in the family that result in placing family obligation and loyalty before individuals needs.
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| La Raza | Literally meaning "the people," the term refers to the rich heritage of Mexican Americans; it is therefore used to denote a sense of pride among Mexican Americans today.
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| Life Chances | People's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions, and favorable life experiences.
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| Mixed Status | Families in which one or more members are citizens and one or more are noncitizens.
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| Mojados | "wetbacks"; derisive slang for Mexicans who enter illegally, supposedly by swimming the Rio Grande.
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| Neocolonialism | Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
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| Neoricans | Puerto Ricans who return to the island to settle after living on the mainlands of the United States(also Nuyoricans).
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| Repatriation | The 1930's program of deporting Mexicans.
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| Pentecostalism | A religion similar in respects to evangelical faiths that believes in the infusion of the Holy Spirit into Services and in religious experiences such as faith healing.
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| Tracking | The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
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| World Systems Theory | A view of the global economic system as divided between nations that control wealth and those that provide natural resources and labor.
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