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Latinos in Utah: The Postwar Years (1946-1967) While Latinos’ efforts during the war years may not have changed the attitudes of all members of the white majority, important changes …
West Virginia Forging a Latino Community at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century As the United States enters the twenty-first century, the ethnic composition of the nation is rapidly …
Though it was passed in a concerted effort to assuage anxieties about undocumented migration in the context of heightened national security concerns, the Legal Presence Law has had perverse …
Utah: The Colonial and Mexican Eras (1765-1847) The territory of modern Utah did not generate much interest among the bureaucrats who governed Spain’s colonial enterprise. Researchers who have analyzed …
Washington historical overview The first Pacific Northwest settlers of Latin American origin arrived in the late 1700s in response to European explorers’ claims to the area. In 1774, two …
Vermont Mobility and Homeownership Latino migrants in Vermont had been living in the United States for a substantial amount of time. More than half (52.7 percent) of Latinos had …
South Dakota NOTABLE LATINOS Cante, Fortino (1925-2001). Born in Mexico, Fortino Cante came to South Dakota as an agricultural worker in 1945, trained military personnel in masonry, interpreted for …
Utah historical overview A Salt Lake Tribune article dated April 25, 2006, conveyed the story of Jaime and Carmen De Leon, both natives of Chihuahua, Mexico, who now are …