Thirty Million Strong: Reclaiming the Hispanic Image in American CultureMany Americans are taught that the first people to "settle" North America were the English colonists in Jamestown, Virginia. On the contrary, Hispanic peoples developed a culture and civilization in North America that predated the English by centuries. In this controversial and lively book, Nicolas Kanellos chronicles and analyzes the changing images of Hispanics in the United States from the age of exploration and conquest to the present, reclaiming the Hispanic heritage in American culture. Part history, part manifesto, this book challenges our notions of the Hispanic peoples, giving us a perspective into the great contributions this group has made to American society. |
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... dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna . The American Whig Review summarized what had led President Polk and the United States into the war and ultimate victory : " Mexico was poor , distracted , in anarchy , and almost in ruins - what ...
... dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna . The American Whig Review summarized what had led President Polk and the United States into the war and ultimate victory : " Mexico was poor , distracted , in anarchy , and almost in ruins - what ...
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... dictatorial regimes in Cuba helped to establish the United States as a destination for political refugees once the dictator in ques- tion , Fulgencio Batista , had fallen to rebel forces . What was new was that the introduction of ...
... dictatorial regimes in Cuba helped to establish the United States as a destination for political refugees once the dictator in ques- tion , Fulgencio Batista , had fallen to rebel forces . What was new was that the introduction of ...
Page 120
... dictator Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic in 1961 was aimed at averting a Cuban - style communist revolution and led to the establishment of immigration pathways that have brought some five hundred thousand Dominicans to live ...
... dictator Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic in 1961 was aimed at averting a Cuban - style communist revolution and led to the establishment of immigration pathways that have brought some five hundred thousand Dominicans to live ...
Contents
The Black Legend | 47 |
Manifest Destiny | 61 |
Immigration Policy | 101 |
Copyright | |
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