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Emerging Pan-Latino Coalition A 1980 study of the Latinos of Rhode Island portrayed a community rife with division: There is a great deal of divisiveness and nationalistic animosity between various Latin groups, especially between Puerto Ricans and Dominicans. The Latin community’ is not really one united community at all but a loose confederation of recently-arrived Spanish speaking migrants from more than a dozen separate Hispanic nations.8 However, at the time that study was written, efforts belying that contention were already under way. These efforts were spurred, in part, by the desire to improve living conditions and provide opportunities for advancement,

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Rhode Island

editor — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 10:45:00 +0000

Chronology 1650s-1670s The first migrants from Latin America arrive. Jewish settlers, originally from Spain and Portugal, migrate via the West Indies and settle in Newport. 1730s Additional Jewish migrants arrive from Curasao. 1870 The U.S. census indicates that only 82 Rhode Island residents are born in Latin America. That figure will remain below 1,000 until the midtwentieth century. 1920s Puerto Ricans begin arriving in Rhode Island as seasonal workers on farms in the southern part of the state. 1964 The first migrants from Colombia arrive in Central Falls to work in textile mills. 1970 With help from the Diocese of

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