Managing Hispanic and Latino Employees

Preface

This is the first management book published about Hispanics in the workplace since the election of Barack Obama, who, in his first news conference after being elected, referred to himself as a “mutt.”⁴ After centuries of vilification, “miscegenation” has been accepted on the public stage of American life. The ascendance of Hispanics, Latinos, and Latins is as fraught with emotion as it is sweeping in scope. To be sure, changes that alter the course of a society’s narrative cause tremendous apprehension. Towns that became ringed by tenements on their way to becoming cities were overwhelmed by waves of human migration during the Industrial Revolution. Men lashed out at women, resisted and resented their arrival in offices throughout the ...