Atlas of Hispanic-American History

form ImpreMedia. In 2007 ImpreMedia announced the purchase of Hoy,New York’s second large Spanish-language newspaper. Both El Di ...

Richard Serra, born in San Francisco in 1939, remains one of the most highly regarded American sculptors working today. His larg ...

Elizabeth Peña are a few Latinas who have reached wide audiences as film actresses. Latino movie stars have includ- ed Antonio B ...

The first Latino baseball player to be admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame was Puerto Rican legend Roberto Clemente (1934–1972 ...

Treviño and Nancy López. In boxing, Mexican American Oscar de la Hoya won a gold medal at the 1992 Olympics. Pancho Gonzalez, Gi ...

Latino culture includes many differ- ent styles of music: the Puerto Rican/ Cuban blend called salsa, the Colombian- based cumbi ...

Roman Catholic but with regional touch- es that reflect the tendency to mix traditions and create local adaptations. Mexican-Ame ...

land, but a Salvadoran may awake with nightmares from post-traumatic stress disorder, the result of having witnessed atrocities ...

general as hot-blooded, lazy, and unstable. They know that a Guatemalan may be regarded as a Mexican and an Ecuadorian assumed t ...

Acuña, Rudolfo. Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles.Verso Books: New York, 1996. . Corridors of Migration ...

Haney López, Ian F. Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2003. Hardin, Stephen, and Gar ...

Rodriguez, Jaime E. The Independence of Spanish America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Romo, David Dorado. Ringsi ...

A acequias(irrigation), 59 Acoma, 53 Adams, John Quincy, 83–84, 118 Adams-Onís Treaty (1819), 71 Africa, 14–18 AgJOBS Act of 200 ...

Comanche, 105 Community Service Organization (CSO), 191–93 compadres, 241 Confederación de Uniones de Campesinos y Obreros Mexic ...

Havana, Cuba, 27, 28 Hawkins, John, 50 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1903), 129–30 Hayek, Selma, 235 Hay-Pauncefote Treaty (1901), 1 ...

Minutemen, 220–21 Miranda, Francisco de, 71, 72 Miranda, Rafael Candel, 174 missionaries, missions California, 61, 62 in Spanish ...

Saralegui, Cristina, 233 Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 220 scientific achievements, 238 Scott, Winfield, 91, 94–96 Selena, 236 Selman, ...