Category: History
Acosta, Teresa Palomo, and Ruthe Winegarten. Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Acuna, Rodolfo. Occupied America: A History of Chicanos. 4th ed. New …
Throughout the large cities of Milwaukee and Green Bay to the smaller communities of Oshkosh and Appleton, Latinos have brought their culture to Wisconsin in the form of landscaping, …
Santa Elena was settled by families transplanted from Spain. The local economy was dominated by farmers, artisans, and merchants, but poor land, a lack of supplies, and increasingly hostile …
Virginia cultural contributions The fact that Latinos have significantly transformed Virginia’s cultural, social, and economic landscape in profound ways is today more evident than ever. …
Current Demographic Overview of Latinos in Oregon In 2005, Latinos were the second-largest population group in Oregon, about 9.9 percent of the total population of 3,700,758. Latino children were …
Cultural contributions As a group, Latinos are fiercely proud of their traditions and customs. The maintenance of a Latino culture came to depend on Latino associations, newspapers, radio stations, …
Tennessee bibliography Ansley, Fran, and Susan Williams. Southern Women and Southern Borders on the Move: Tennessee Workers Explore the New International Division of Labor. In Neither Separate Nor Equal: …
Latinos live in every county in South Carolina, but the largest Latino populations have settled in urban areas in the upstate (northwestern region), midlands, and low country (or coastal …
The Depression, the New Deal, and World War II Texas’s economic expansion continued in the 1920s. Cotton prices fluctuated, but other industries particularly oil experienced a boom. Although oil …
Oregon bibliography Baragli de Bevington, Maria Luisa. Argentinian, Teacher at Lincoln High School, Portland. In Nosotros: The Hispanic People of Oregon. Eds. Erasmo Gamboa and Carolyn M. Baun. Portland: …