Latinos migrating to Massachusetts faced a plethora of difficulties, both when they arrived and as they tried to integrate themselves into the greater community. One of these difficulties with …
Mississippi Organizing for change Mississippi’s Latinos have not been able to use the traditional bases of Latino political power in the United States. No national Latino advocacy organization has …
New Mexico CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS Religion and Religious Art Catholicism was brought to New Mexico by Spanish Franciscan missionaries whose presence and dominance in New Mexico would place a unique …
New Mexico Legends Like folk medicine, local lore and oral traditions were always very strong in New Mexico. This was due to the lack of a printing press and …
Nebraska Spanish Presence Around the 1530s, Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca reported seeing bison and bison hides. Historians believe this shipwrecked explorer reached the outer edges …
New Jersey cultural contributions An important part of culture is religious faith and practices. A large portion of the Latinos who have come to New Jersey are Roman Catholic, …
New Mexico historical overview New Mexico was born in Zacatecas, the colonial silver city in Mexico. Don Juan de Onate the man credited with claiming New Mexico for the …
Latino culture in Mississippi has been both visible and invisible, mainstream and separate from the culture of white and black Mississippians. The signature Mississippi hot tamale is perhaps the …
Garces, Father Francisco (1738-1781). Father Francisco was the Spanish chronicler for the De Anza expedition and one of the first Europeans to set foot in what is today the …
Mississippi Isolated Migrations in the 1970s-1980s Mechanical cotton pickers notwithstanding, there was still much low-wage labor to be performed in Mississippi this time, in more industrialized sectors, such as …
