
- 232 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The first text of its kind to trace the combined history of Latino groups in the United States from 1500 to the present day. Latinos have lived in North America for over 400 years, arriving decades before the Pilgrims and other English settlers. Yet for many outside of Latino ethnic groups, little is known about the cultures that comprise the Latino community … surprising considering their increasing presence in the U.S. population-over 50 million individuals at the latest census. This book explores the heritage and history of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, and Central and South Americans. Unlike similar history surveys on these communities, this book places the 500 years of Latino history into a single narrative. Each chapter discusses the collective group within a particular time period-moving chronologically from 1500 to the 2010s-revealing the shared experiences of community building and discrimination in the United States, the central role of Latinas and Latinos in their communities, and the diversity that exists within the communities themselves.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chronology of Key Dates in Latino History
- 1. Latina/o Beginnings, 1500–1800
- 2. Independence and Empire, 1800–1835
- 3. Los Americanos, 1835–1848
- 4. Separate Paths, 1848–1868
- 5. Wars of Independence, 1868–1898
- 6. Birth of a Latina/o Nation, 1898–1930
- 7. Great Depression and World War II, 1930–1945
- 8. Latina/os in Mid-Twentieth-Century America, 1945–1965
- 9. New Worlds, New Homes, 1965–1986
- 10. Latina/os in a New Century, 1986–Present
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author