ABSTRACT
Latinos are the fastest growing population in America today. This two-volume encyclopedia traces the history of Latinos in the United States from colonial times to the present, focusing on their impact on the nation in its historical development and current culture. "Latino History and Culture" covers the myriad ethnic groups that make up the Latino population. It explores issues such as labor, legal and illegal immigration, traditional and immigrant culture, health, education, political activism, art, literature, and family, as well as historical events and developments. A-Z entries cover eras, individuals, organizations and institutions, critical events in U.S. history and the impact of the Latino population, communities and ethnic groups, and key cities and regions. Each entry includes cross references and bibliographic citations, and a comprehensive index and illustrations augment the text.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |27 pages
Essays
entry |8 pages
History: 1492—1900
entry |7 pages
History: 1900—1965
entry |9 pages
History: 1965—Present
letter |29 pages
A
entry |4 pages
Acculturation and Assimilation
entry |2 pages
Acosta, Oscar (1935—?)
entry |2 pages
Acuña, Rodolfo (1932—)
entry |3 pages
Afro-Latinos
entry |2 pages
Afro-Mexicans
entry |5 pages
Aids/Hiv
entry |3 pages
Alamo, Battle of the
entry |2 pages
Albizu Campos, Pedro (1891—1965)
entry |2 pages
Algarín, Miguel (1941—)
entry |3 pages
Alvarez, Julia (1950—)
entry |2 pages
American GI Forum
entry |1 pages
Americanization
entry |2 pages
Anaya, Rudolfo Alfonso (1937—)
entry |2 pages
Anzaldúa, Gloria (1942—2004)
entry |2 pages
Arenas, Reinaldo (1943—1990)
entry |3 pages
Argentines
entry |1 pages
Armed Forces
entry |2 pages
Aspira
entry |1 pages
Assimilation
entry |2 pages
Aztlán
letter |25 pages
B
entry |2 pages
Baca, Judith F. (1946—)
entry |2 pages
Balseros
entry |4 pages
Baseball
entry |3 pages
Basketball
entry |2 pages
Bay of Pigs Invasion
entry |2 pages
Bear Flag Revolt
entry |3 pages
Bilingualism
entry |2 pages
Blair House Attack
entry |2 pages
Blowouts
entry |3 pages
Bolivians
entry |2 pages
Boricua
entry |2 pages
Boxing
entry |3 pages
Bracero Program
entry |3 pages
Brazilians
entry |2 pages
Brothers to the Rescue
entry |3 pages
Brown Berets
letter |68 pages
C
entry |1 pages
Carnalismo
entry |2 pages
Castellanos, Rosario (1925—1974)
entry |2 pages
Castillo, Ana (1953—)
entry |4 pages
Castro, Fidel (1926—)
entry |2 pages
Central American Resource Center
entry |4 pages
Chávez, César (1927—1993)
entry |2 pages
Chávez Ravine
entry |3 pages
Chicago
entry |3 pages
Chicanisma
entry |4 pages
Chicanismo
entry |2 pages
Chicano/a
entry |2 pages
Chicano Art
entry |1 pages
Chicano Moratorium
entry |3 pages
Chicano Movement
entry |3 pages
Chicano Studies
entry |3 pages
Chileans
entry |2 pages
Cholos
entry |4 pages
Cinco de Mayo
entry |3 pages
Circular Migration
entry |2 pages
Cisneros, Henry (1947—)
entry |2 pages
Cisneros, Sandra (1954—)
entry |2 pages
Clemente, Roberto (1934—1972)
entry |3 pages
Cofer, Judith Ortiz (1952—)
entry |2 pages
Colombians
entry |1 pages
Colonialism
entry |3 pages
Communist Party
entry |2 pages
Community Service Organization
entry |2 pages
Congressional Hispanic Caucus
entry |4 pages
Conquest of the Americas
entry |3 pages
Consumerism
entry |3 pages
Corona, Bert (1918—2001)
entry |2 pages
Corridos
entry |2 pages
Costa Ricans
entry |2 pages
Coyotes
entry |2 pages
Cruz, Celia (1925—2003)
entry |2 pages
Crystal City, Texas
entry |2 pages
Cuban Adjustment Acts (1966, 1996)
entry |3 pages
Cuban American National Foundation
entry |2 pages
Cuban Refugee Center
entry |2 pages
Cuban Refugee Program
entry |3 pages
Cubans
entry |3 pages
Culture Clash
letter |8 pages
D
entry |3 pages
De La Hoya, Oscar (1973–)
entry |2 pages
Del Rio Independent School District v. Salvatierra (1930)
entry |2 pages
Día de la Raza
entry |2 pages
Día de los Muertos
entry |1 pages
Dominican Day Parade
entry |2 pages
Dominicans
letter |13 pages
E
entry |2 pages
East L.A. Thirteen
entry |2 pages
East Los Angeles
entry |3 pages
Ecuadorians
entry |5 pages
Education
entry |3 pages
Escalante, Jaime (1930–)
entry |3 pages
Estefan, Gloria (1957–)
letter |20 pages
F
entry |3 pages
Family and Community
entry |3 pages
Farah Strike
entry |3 pages
Farmingville, New York
entry |3 pages
Feminism
entry |2 pages
Ferrer, José (1912-1992)
entry |2 pages
Film
entry |2 pages
Flores Magón, Ricardo (1874-1922)
entry |4 pages
Foods and Beverages
entry |2 pages
Foraker Act (1900)
entry |2 pages
Foreign Miners' Tax (1850)
entry |2 pages
Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN)
letter |31 pages
G
entry |2 pages
Galarza, Ernesto (1905–1984)
entry |2 pages
Gamio, Manuel (1883–1960)
entry |3 pages
Gangs
entry |2 pages
Garcia, Cristina (1958–)
entry |3 pages
García, Héctor P. (1914–1996)
entry |3 pages
Gay and Lesbian Organizations
entry |3 pages
Gonzales, Rodolfo “Corky” (1928–2005)
entry |2 pages
González, Elián (1993–)
entry |3 pages
Gonzalez, Henry Barbosa (1916–2000)
entry |2 pages
Gonzalez, Jose-Luis (1940–)
entry |3 pages
Graffiti
entry |4 pages
Grape Strikes and Boycotts
entry |2 pages
“Greaser Act” (1855)
entry |2 pages
Gringo
entry |2 pages
Grito, El
entry |1 pages
Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of
entry |2 pages
Guagua Aérea
entry |3 pages
Guatemalans
entry |2 pages
Guevara, Ernesto “Che” (1928–1967)
entry |2 pages
Gutiérrez, José Angel (1944–)
letter |16 pages
H
entry |5 pages
Health and Health Care
entry |2 pages
Hijuelos, Oscar (1951–)
entry |4 pages
Hip-Hop
entry |2 pages
Hispanic Heritage Month
entry |3 pages
Hondurans
entry |3 pages
Housing and Living Conditions
entry |3 pages
Huerta, Dolores (1930–)
letter |24 pages
I
entry |5 pages
Identity and Labels
entry |4 pages
Illegal Immigration
entry |3 pages
Immigration Act of 1924
entry |2 pages
Immigration Act of 1990
entry |3 pages
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
entry |4 pages
Immigration Enforcement
entry |1 pages
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
entry |3 pages
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
entry |4 pages
Indigenismo
entry |3 pages
Internal Colony
letter |3 pages
J
entry |2 pages
Jones Act (1917)
entry |2 pages
Justice for Janitors
letter |5 pages
K
entry |2 pages
Kahlo, Frida (1907–1954)
entry |2 pages
Kennedy, Robert F. (1925–1968)
entry |2 pages
King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929–1968)
letter |28 pages
L
entry |2 pages
La Raza
entry |3 pages
La Raza Unida Party
entry |1 pages
Labor
entry |3 pages
Latinidad/Latinaje
entry |4 pages
Latinization
entry |4 pages
Latino/a
entry |2 pages
Latino Studies
entry |4 pages
League of United Latin American Citizens
entry |2 pages
Lemon Grove Incident
entry |2 pages
Lesbianas Unidas
entry |2 pages
Levins Morales, Aurora (1954–)
entry |1 pages
Llegó
entry |3 pages
Lopez, Jennifer (1970–)
entry |5 pages
Los Angeles
entry |3 pages
Lowriders
letter |67 pages
M
entry |2 pages
Macheteros, Los
entry |3 pages
Machismo
entry |3 pages
Malinche, La (c. 1500—c. 1529)
entry |3 pages
Manifest Destiny
entry |3 pages
Marianismo
entry |2 pages
Mariel Boatlift
entry |2 pages
Marielitos
entry |3 pages
McCarran-Walter Act (1952)
entry |2 pages
Medrano v. Allee (1972)
entry |1 pages
Melting Pot
entry |2 pages
Mendez v. Westminster School District (1946)
entry |1 pages
Mestizo/a
entry |3 pages
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
entry |4 pages
Mexican-American Movement
entry |3 pages
Mexican American Political Association
entry |2 pages
Mexican American Student Association
entry |2 pages
Mexican American Women's National Association
entry |3 pages
Mexican American Youth Organization
entry |4 pages
Mexican-American War
entry |3 pages
Mexicans
entry |2 pages
Miami
entry |3 pages
Migrant Workers
entry |6 pages
Military, Latinos in the
entry |3 pages
Miscegenation
entry |3 pages
Moraga, Cherríe (1952—)
entry |3 pages
Morales, Iris (?— )
entry |2 pages
Moreno, Rita (1931—)
entry |2 pages
Mothers of East L.A.
entry |3 pages
Movimiento Estudiantíl Chicano de Aztlán
entry |3 pages
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social
entry |2 pages
Mulataje
entry |2 pages
Mulatto/a
entry |2 pages
Muñoz Marín, Luis (1898—1980)
entry |3 pages
Muñoz Rivera, Luis (1859—1916)
entry |3 pages
Mural Art
entry |2 pages
Murrieta, Joaquín (c. 1829—1853)
entry |3 pages
Museo del Barrio, El
entry |4 pages
Music
letter |32 pages
N
entry |2 pages
Narváez, Pánfilo (c. 1470–1528)
entry |2 pages
National Agricultural Workers Union
entry |2 pages
National Association of Cuban-American Women
entry |2 pages
National Boricua Latino Health Organization
entry |2 pages
National Chicano Moratorium
entry |2 pages
National Conference of Puerto Rican Women
entry |2 pages
National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights
entry |2 pages
National Council of Hispanic Women
entry |3 pages
National Council of La Raza
entry |2 pages
National Farm Labor Union
entry |2 pages
National Puerto Rican Coalition
entry |5 pages
Nationalism
entry |5 pages
New York
entry |2 pages
Nicaraguans
entry |2 pages
Norte, El (1983)
entry |4 pages
North American Free Trade Agreement
entry |2 pages
Novello, Antonia (1944–)
entry |3 pages
Nuyorican
entry |2 pages
Nuyorican Poets Café
letter |6 pages
O
entry |3 pages
Operation Bootstrap
entry |3 pages
Operation Wetback
entry |2 pages
Opinión, La
letter |54 pages
P
entry |2 pages
Pachuco
entry |2 pages
Padilla, José (1970—)
entry |2 pages
Panamanians
entry |2 pages
Paraguayans
entry |2 pages
Peña, Albert A., Jr. (1917—2006)
entry |3 pages
Pérez, Emma (1954—)
entry |2 pages
Performance Art, Solo
entry |3 pages
Peruvians
entry |2 pages
Plan de Santa Barbara, El
entry |3 pages
Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, El
entry |2 pages
Platt Amendment (1901)
entry |8 pages
Politics
entry |6 pages
Popular Culture
entry |3 pages
Poverty
entry |3 pages
Poverty, Culture of
entry |2 pages
Prinze, Freddie (1954—1977)
entry |3 pages
Prison Gangs
entry |3 pages
Prison Industrial Complex
entry |3 pages
Proposition 187 (1994)
entry |4 pages
Proposition 209 (1996)
entry |3 pages
Proposition 227 (1998)
entry |2 pages
Puente, Tito (1923—2000)
entry |3 pages
Puerto Rican Day Parade
entry |4 pages
Puerto Rican Literature
entry |2 pages
Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization
entry |3 pages
Puerto Rican Studies
entry |2 pages
Puerto Ricans
letter |3 pages
Q
entry |3 pages
Quinceañera
entry |1 pages
Quintanilla, Selena
letter |18 pages
R
entry |2 pages
Race
entry |6 pages
Religion
entry |3 pages
Repatriation
entry |2 pages
Resident Commissioner, Puerto Rico
entry |1 pages
Revolving Door Migration
entry |3 pages
Rodriguez, Alex (1975—)
entry |2 pages
Rodríguez, Luis J. (1954—)
entry |3 pages
Rodriguez, Richard (1944—)
entry |2 pages
Rodríguez de Tió, Lola (1843—1924)
entry |2 pages
Roybal, Edward R. (1916—2005)
entry |2 pages
Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo (1832—1895)
letter |31 pages
S
entry |2 pages
Salazar, Rubén (1928—1970)
entry |3 pages
Salvadorans
entry |3 pages
Samora, Julian (1920—1996)
entry |2 pages
Santiago, Esmeralda (1948—)
entry |3 pages
Selena (1971—1995)
entry |2 pages
Serra, Junípero (1713—1784)
entry |3 pages
Sleepy Lagoon Case
entry |4 pages
Soccer
entry |3 pages
Sosa, Sammy (1968—)
entry |2 pages
Sotomayor, Sonia (1954—)
entry |2 pages
Southwest Voter Registration Education Project
entry |2 pages
Spanglish
entry |4 pages
Spanish Language
entry |5 pages
Spanish-American War
entry |3 pages
Spirituality
entry |3 pages
Sterilization
letter |24 pages
T
entry |2 pages
Taos Rebellion
entry |3 pages
Teatro Campesino, El
entry |2 pages
Tejanos
entry |2 pages
Telemundo
entry |5 pages
Television
entry |2 pages
Telles, Raymond (1915—)
entry |2 pages
Tenayuca, Emma (1916—1999)
entry |3 pages
Tex-Mex
entry |2 pages
Third World Liberation Front
entry |2 pages
Thomás, Piri (1928—)
entry |4 pages
Tijerina, Reies López (1926—)
entry |2 pages
Tracking
entry |3 pages
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
entry |3 pages
Trevino, Lee (1939—)
letter |9 pages
U
entry |4 pages
Unions, Industrial and Trade
entry |3 pages
United Farm Workers of America
entry |3 pages
Univision
entry |2 pages
Uruguayans
entry |1 pages
U.S. Military
letter |11 pages
V
entry |2 pages
Valdez, Luis (1940—)
entry |3 pages
Valenzuela, Fernando (1960—)
entry |2 pages
Venezuelans
entry |3 pages
Vieques, Puerto Rico
entry |2 pages
Vietnam War
entry |2 pages
Villaraigosa, Antonio (1953—)
entry |2 pages
Viva Kennedy Clubs
letter |7 pages
W
entry |2 pages
West Side Story
entry |3 pages
Women
entry |4 pages
Wrestling, Professional
letter |5 pages
Y
entry |2 pages
Yo Soy Joaquín
entry |4 pages
Young Lords
letter |6 pages
Z
entry |3 pages
Zapatistas
entry |4 pages
Zoot Suit Riots
