The Hispanic-American Almanac: A Reference Work on Hispanics in the United States"The editors have taken a series of complex issues and presented them in a readable, interesting book that students might actually read!" New Edition This updated source describes all major aspects of the culture and civilization of Hispanic Americans living in the United States. Chapters cover such topics as: The format of each chapter varies, based on the subject being discussed. Overall, the text is narrative, augmented by approximately 450 photographs, maps and charts. A bibliography has been included at the end of each chapter to facilitate further research. Features of the Almanac include a glossary and a keyword index. |
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... Mexican colonias . Mexicans who had been so desirable as workers in the previous decade became unwanted throughout the United States in the 1930s . From throughout , thousands of Mexicans left , many times pressured by community ...
... Mexican relationship that shaped present atti- tudes , economic dependencies , and immigration . The Southwest borderlands , currently the area of the highest density of the Mexican - origin population , stretches from the Pacific Ocean ...
... Mexicans began moving to the growing cities of the West . Mexican immigration has been the result , as in other Hispanic immigration and settlement , of the ongoing economic and political relationship of the home country with the United ...
Contents
Beyond Orthodoxy | 383 |
Literature | 597 |
Outstanding Figures in Hispanic Theater 529 | 734 |
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