Travel to Ohio
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, …
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Holiday in Philadelphia
Murals Philadelphia is filled with Latino-themed murals, many of which have been sponsored by Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program (MAP). These include Puerto Rican Woman (427 W. Dauphin Street), Recuerdo …
Tennessee Guide for Tourist
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: …
Texas Subway Map
Texas HISTORICAL OVERVIEW In 2000, Latinos numbered 7,318,988, or 35.1 percent of the Texas population. Dispersed across the state’s 261,797 square miles, this population represents nearly five hundred years …
Philadelphia Subway Map
Philadelphia Migration and the Labor Force Cigar-making factories would continue to be an important source of employment well into the 1950s, but the industrialization of Philadelphia in the late …
South Carolina Metro Map
Colonial South Carolina The Latino presence in South Carolina dates to the early sixteenth century. Spanish exploration of the region of present-day South Carolina began when Lucas Vasquez de …
South Carolina Vacations
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 …
Tennessee Map
Changing Social Relations in Tennessee Although Latinos have much in common with generations of rural Tennesseans who migrated to midwestern and northeastern cities, Latinos are often perceived as …
Oregon Map
Immigration, Reform Act, and the Settling of the Third and Fourth Generations of Latinos in Oregon By the 1980s the Latino population in Oregon included a significant number of …
Texas Vacations
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 …