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Subject(s)

• Hispanic Americans—History [Browse]
• Assimilation (Sociology)—United States—History [Browse]
• United States—Race relations—History [Browse]

Summary note

"A sweeping yet personal overview of the latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority. LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana's life experience as a Latina. At present, Latinos comprise 20 percent of the US population, a number that is growing. By 2050, census reports project that one in every three Americans will claim Latino heritage. But Latinos are not a monolith. They do not represent a single group. The largest numbers are Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Salvadorans, and Cubans. Each has a different cultural and political background. Puerto Ricans, for example, are US citizens, whereas some Mexican Americans never immigrated because the US-Mexico border shifted after the US invasion of 1848, incorporating what is now the entire southwest of the United States. Cubans came in two great waves: those escaping communism in the early years of Castro, many of whom were professionals and wealthy, and those permitted to leave in the Mariel boat lift twenty years later, representing some of the poorest Cubans, including prisoners. As LatinoLand shows, Latinos were some of the earliest immigrants to what is now the US--some of them arriving in the 1500s. They are racially diverse--a random fusion of White, Black, Indigenous, and Asian. Once overwhelmingly Catholic, they are becoming increasingly Protestant and Evangelical. They range from domestic workers and day laborers to successful artists, corporate CEOs, and US senators. Formerly solidly Democratic, they now vote Republican in growing numbers. They are as varied culturally as any immigrants from Europe or Asia. Marie Arana draws on her own experience as the daughter of an American mother and Peruvian father who came to the US at age nine, straddling two worlds, as many Latinos do. LatinoLand unabashedly celebrates Latino resilience and character and shows us why we must understand the fastest-growing minority in America"-- Amazon.com.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-523) and index.

Contents

• Author's note: We of no man
• Part I: Origin stories. Arrivals
• The price of admission
• Forerunners
• Part II: Turf and skin. Why they left, where they went
• Shades of belonging
• The color line
• Part III: Souls. The god of conquest
• The gods of choice
• Part IV: How we think, how we work. Mind-sets
• Muscle
• Part V: How we shine. Changemakers
• Limelight
• Epilogue: Unity.

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Other title(s)

Portrait of America's largest and least understood minority

ISBN

• 9781982184896 ((hardcover))
• 1982184892 ((hardcover))

LCCN

2023290724

OCLC

1420804420

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