Latino Americans

  • Premiered: Sep 2013
  • Episodes: 6
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • PBS
  • Tuesday at 20
  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
Foreigners in Their Own Land
Episode overview
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Sep 16, 2013
Explores the period from 1565-1880, as the first Spanish explorers enter North America, the U.S. expands into territories in the Southwest that had been home to Native Americans and .. show full overview
1x2
Empire of Dreams
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Air date
Sep 16, 2013
Documents how the American population begins to be reshaped by the influx of people that began in 1880 and continues into the 1940s, as Cubans, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans begin arriving .. show full overview
1x3
War and Peace
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Sep 23, 2013
Moves into the World War II years and those that follow, as Latino Americans serve their new country by the hundreds of thousands — but still face discrimination and a fight for civil rights back in the United States.
1x4
The New Latinos
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 23, 2013
Highlights the swelling immigration from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic that stretches from the post-World War II years into the early 1960s as the new arrivals seek economic opportunities.
1x5
Prejudice and Pride
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Sep 30, 2013
Details the creation of the proud “Chicano” identity, as labor leaders organize farm workers in California, and as activists push for better education opportunities for Latinos, the .. show full overview
1x6 Show finale
Peril and Promise
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Sep 30, 2013
Takes viewers through the past 30 years, with a second wave of Cubans arriving in Miami during the Mariel exodus and with hundreds of thousands Salvadorans, Nicaraguans and Guatemalans .. show full overview

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