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THE AUTHOR REVIEWS SOME OF THE THEORETICAL, METHODOLOGICAL, AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS ENTAILED BY THE USE OF THE LABELS--ASIANS, BLACKS, AND HISPANICS. THE MAIN FOCUS IS THE OBJECTIVE IMPLICATIONS OF THE HISPANIC LABLE FOR LATIN AMERICANS WHO IMMIGRATE TO OR VISIT THE UNITED STATES. IT IS HER CONTENTION THAT THIS LABEL HAS NEGATIVE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONNOTATIONS THAT ARE IMPORTANT FOR AN ASSESSMENT OF THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND SCIENTIFIC USEFULNESS OF THIS AND OTHER RACIAL LABELS FOR CLASSIFYING THE U.S. POPULATION.

Critiques the notion 'feminisation of poverty' popularised by the media in recent years, and insists that gender alone does not provide an adequate framework for analysing the poor. Demonstrates from a statistical review of poverty the factors of race and class as critical variables and predicts the change in patterns in the 1990s. (PAS)