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Teens and the Media
The media have a great influence over the lives of young people, helping to determine how they dress, what they listen to, and how they think. This book will explore teens views and experiences with different mediatelevision, movies, newspapers, magazines, and the Internetand will examine how each has taken steps in recent years to attract a younger audience.
The Civil War, 1840s-1890s
In the newly acquired California and Southwest, Hispanics tried to keep their culture while becoming American. And on the East Coast, Hispanics who arrived along with millions of European immigrants plotted to liberate their homelands. The Civil War looks at Hispanics in the United States from the 1840s, after the end of the U.S.-Mexico war, up to the start of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Book jacket.
The Spanish-American War
Learn about Hispanic America through the The Spanish-American War.
Early Explorations
More than five decades before the Pilgrims, Spanish settlers built the first European settlement on what is now American soil. And more than 250 years before Lewis and Clark's great expedition, Spanish explorers trekked across the continent. Early Explorations, traces the little-known routes of Spainiards in North America-from California to the Pacific Northwest, from Florida to Maine, and throughout the interior of the United States from the New Mexican deserts to the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mountains. Book jacket.
Cuban Immigration
An overview of immigration from Cuba to the United States and Canada since the 1960s, when immigration laws were changed to permit greater numbers of people to enter these countries.
1898 to World War II
Learn about Hispanic America from 1898 to World War II.
Paraguay
A landlocked nation surrounded by its South American neighbors, the Republic of Paraguay has been isolated throughout much of its history. One of the least industrialized South American nations, Paraguay exports soybeans and cotton, as well as hydroelectric power. This book teaches about the geography, history, economy, and culture of the nation.
The Crisis
The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.
Language Policies in Education
How do language policies in education serve the interests of dominant groups within societies? How do policies marginalize some students while granting privilege to others? How do language policies in schools create inequalities among learners? How can schools further the educational, social, and economic interests of linguistic minorities? These questions--the focus of the chapters in this book-- are at the heart of fundamental debates about the role of schools in society; the links between language policies and inequalities of class, region, and ethnicity/nationality; and conflicts between linguistic minorities and "mainstream" populations. The connections between language policies and ine...
The Gilded Age & Progressive Era
This Companion is an alphabetical encyclopedia of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era (GAPE) in the United States, beginning in 1877 with the end of Reconstruction and extending to 1919-20, the end of World War I and the beginning of the Harding administration. Combining materials from traditional political history with newer materials from social, ethnic, and cultural history, the book reflects historiographic trends that have influenced the writing of Gilded Age and Progressive Era histories in recent years. These include revisiting major events with gender and race at the center; asking new questions about the role of economic change and social movements; using literary and critical race the...
