Travel to Iowa
Latinos in Iowa, 1980-2000: Changes and Challenges By the beginning of the 1980s the Latino population comprised over 26,000 people, and the region experienced the early signs of a …
Category: History
Travel to Louisiana
CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS The Latino presence in Louisiana predates and is coterminous with the economic and social development of the state. As one of the principal centers of journalistic and …
Kansas bibliography
Avila, Henry J. Immigration and Integration: The Mexican American Community in Garden City, Kansas, 1900-1950. Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 20, no. 1 (1997): 22-37. Benson, …
Holiday in Indiana
Crawling Their Way into Politics Before the 1940s, prejudice and discrimination prompted Mexicans to engage in self-defense and protest. The initial actions were usually formal complaints to local authorities …
Map of Maryland
Contemporary Issues The growth of the Latino community in Maryland has not been without controversy. The recent rise of ethnic tensions between Latinos and non-Latinos have manifested itself recently …
Iowa
CHRONOLOGY Pre-Contact Approximately 17 different indigenous groups, including the Ioways, Sauks, Meskwakis, Santee Sioux, Winnebagos, Potawatomis, Missouris, and Otos inhabit the region of Iowa. 1542 Arrival of first Europeans. …
Holiday in Louisiana
BIBLIOGRAPHY Armistead, Samuel G. The Spanish Tradition in Louisiana: Isleho Folkliterature, Vol. I. Newark, DE: Juan de Cuesta, 1992. Berchak, Katie Judith. Nueva Orleans: Hispanics in New Orleans, the …
Louisiana Guide for Tourist
Systemic discrimination was also part of the state’s drive to delimit the cultural disenfranchisement of Latinos and blacks. In 1900 Louisiana stopped public schooling after fifth grade for blacks …