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4) The Hispanic American experience: The Latino influence on the United States, discover Latino history
Publisher
TMW Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The Latino population has had an impact not only on the demography of the U.S. population but also on other aspects of U.S. society, from language to medicine, from food to manufacturing. Latinos continue to contribute to American culture as musicians, small business owners, chefs, veterans, and many other professionals.
Author
Publisher
Con Todo Press
Pub. Date
© 2020
Language
English
Description
Brief biographies in rhyme of 11 notable Latinos.
Fearless Trailblazers,11 Latinos who made U.S. History, Pioneros Audaces, 11 Latinos que hicieron historia en Los Estados Unidos, is a bilingual book that highlights 11 Latinos who excelled in their professional careers and made U.S. history by accomplishing something that hadn't been done before in their respective fields which include science, sports, the arts and politics. By presenting the true...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the ?Global South? was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, as exalted by widely taught formulations such as ?manifest destiny? and ?Jacksonian democracy,? and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A sweeping history of the Latinx experience in the United States. The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries--from the European colonization of the Americas to the 2020 election. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American culture and politics is greater than ever. With family portraits of real-life immigrant Latino...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Una historia arrolladora, cuidadosamente revisada y actualizada, de la experiencia latina en Estados Unidos. Es la primera reedición en diez años de este importante estudio sobre los latinos en la historia de Estados Unidos. La cosecha del imperio cubre un periodo de cinco siglos, desde las primeras colonias en el Nuevo Mundo, hasta la primera década del nuevo milenio. Hoy en dia, los latinos representan el grupo minoritario más grande en Estados...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maps the influence of America's Hispanic past, from the explorers and conquistadors who helped colonize Puerto Rico and Florida, to the missionaries and rancheros who settled in California and the 20th-century resurgence in major cities like Chicago and Miami.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots--ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims...
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Series
Publisher
Bluewood Books
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
"This book includes people from diverse backgrounds who have made their marks in various fields such as the early explorers (Pedro Menendez de Aviles and Juan Bautista de Anza) ; politics (Pio de Jesus Pico and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen) ; sports (Oscar de la Hoya and Roberto Clemente) ; entertainment (Desi Arnez and Selena) ; business (Roberto Goizueta and Romana Acosta Banuelos) ; civil rights (Martha Cotera and Cesar Chavez) ; and much more"--Publisher...
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