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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Page 48
... effect of intensifying the barrage of anti - Spanish sentiment , as this more literate class of displaced Spaniards took to pen and press with a vengeance . Amsterdam and Frankfurt am Main became centers of publication that would issue ...
... effect of intensifying the barrage of anti - Spanish sentiment , as this more literate class of displaced Spaniards took to pen and press with a vengeance . Amsterdam and Frankfurt am Main became centers of publication that would issue ...
Page 97
... effect , these islands had unwittingly traded one colo- nial ruler for another . In one fell swoop , the United States became the colonial empire that had been warned against and avoided earlier in the century ; it would govern the vari ...
... effect , these islands had unwittingly traded one colo- nial ruler for another . In one fell swoop , the United States became the colonial empire that had been warned against and avoided earlier in the century ; it would govern the vari ...
Page 129
... effect , the Mexicans of the Southwest were fading into the background consciousness in fiction as they were in real life through segregation and the overwhelming growth of the Anglo population . Even today in many novels and films set ...
... effect , the Mexicans of the Southwest were fading into the background consciousness in fiction as they were in real life through segregation and the overwhelming growth of the Anglo population . Even today in many novels and films set ...
Contents
The Black Legend | 47 |
Manifest Destiny | 61 |
Immigration Policy | 101 |
Copyright | |
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