Understanding Latino History: Excavating the Past, Examining the Present / Edition 1

by Pablo R. Mitchell

Overview

This Latino history textbook is an outstanding reference source that covers many different Latino groups within a single comprehensive narrative.

Latinos make up a vibrant, expanding, and extremely diverse population with a history of being in the Americas that dates back to the early 16th century. Today, Latinos represent the largest ethnic minority group in the United States, yet the history of Latinos is largely unknown to the wider nation. This book tells the larger "story" of Latinos in the United States and describes how they represent a breadth of ethnicities, addressing not only those in very large numbers from countries such as Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and El Salvador, but also Latino people from Peru, Argentina, Venezuela, Panama, and Costa Rica, as well as indigenous Oaxacans and Mixtecos, among others.

Organized chronologically, the book's coverage begins with the arrival of the Spanish in the Americas around 1500 and stretches to the present. Each chapter discusses a particular time period and addresses multiple Latino groups in the United States together in the same narrative. The text is supplemented with interesting sidebars that spotlight topics such as Latino sports figures, authentic recipes, and Latino actors and pop stars. These sidebars help to engage readers and assist them in better understanding the wide range of "the Latino American experience" in the modern context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440841682
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/11/2017
Series:	Non-Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.15(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Pablo R. Mitchell is associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences as well as professor of history and comparative American studies at Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments ix

Chronology xi

Chapter 1 Spanish Beginnings, 1500-1800 1

Chapter 2 Independence and Empire, 1800-1835 17

Chapter 3 Los Americanos, 1835-1848 33

Chapter 4 Separate Paths, 1848-1868 49

Chapter 5 Wars of Independence, 1868-1898 65

Chapter 6 Birth of a Latina/o Nation, 1898-1930 81

Chapter 7 Great Depression and World War II, 1930-1945 97

Chapter 8 Latina/os in Mid-20th-Century America, 1945-1965 113

Chapter 9 New Worlds, New Homes, 1965-1986 129

Chapter 10 Latina/os in a New Century, 1986-Present 147

Profiles 167

Primary Documents 193

Glossary 275

Bibliography 281

About the Author and Contributors 289

Index 291

Editorial Reviews

Readers of all types—high school and college students, interested adults, and possibly academics—will this find this a work of value, at a quite reasonable price. Libraries serving all these constituencies should certainly consider adding this volume to their collections.” —ARBA

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