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Episode 4: The New Latinos Trailer

Season 1 Episode 4 | 3m 05s

Until World War II, Latino immigration to the United States was overwhelmingly Mexican-American. Now three new waves bring large-scale immigration from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic.

Funding for LATINO AMERICANS is provided by CPB, PBS, Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and The Summerlee Foundation
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From Cuba a second wave of refugees to United States – the Mariel exodus – floods Miami
Service during the war allows Latinos to make unprecedented gains in civil rights
In the 1960s and 1970s a generation of Mexican Americans build a new "Chicano" identity
Widespread immigration to the U.S. from Latin countries begins.
Manifest Destiny pushes the U.S west into the Mexican territories of the South West
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