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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... cultural institutions in re- lating , adapting , and surviving in the new cultural milieu that is the United States . Fundamental to this adaptation process , and indeed to Hispanic culture in general , is the institu- tion of the ...
... cultural traditions , and the Spanish language . Public policy toward Hispanic education was based on a developing and strengthening notion of the American national cultural identity that evalu- ated the religious , cultural , and ...
... cultural order by promoting En- glish and simultaneously eliminating the use of Span- ish in the schools . By the ... cultural and linguistic pluralism initiated at midcentury . The annexation of the Southwest in the late 1840s coincided ...
Contents
Beyond Orthodoxy | 383 |
Literature | 597 |
Outstanding Figures in Hispanic Theater 529 | 734 |
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