Immigration Station: A Compilation of Art and Literature Defining the Experience of Latin American Immigrants in U.S. Schools Since 1900
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Our Little Mexican Cousin
Author: Edward Crompton Butler
A publication introducing American school children to other cultures. In Chapter 2, “At School”, a Mexican girl named Juanita is characterized as being “[appreciative of] the opportunity which was afforded her to learn those things which would help to make her life useful to herself and to others” (15). Link text -
"National School Service" bulletin titled "The Teacher and Americanization"
This publication guides teachers on how to welcome immigrants into their classroom. There is advice for night school with adult students: "should be impressed...with American ideals..." (25), and for day school students: "cultivate a spirit of fellowship" (25).
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Globeville Community House, 4496 Grant Street, Denver, CO
-community center for immigrants
-helped adapt
"The proposal for [the house] was brought before the Denver Real Estate Exchange by William McPhee at the urging of his sister, who had a great interest in helping the people of Globeville" (4).
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Library of Congress Collection “Prosperity and Thrift: the Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy” Book Title: “Americanization Through Homemaking”
Author: Pearl Idellia Ellis
This book contains information from the “school programs for homemaking and citizenship for young Mexican immigrant women”. Areas of instruction included: “sewing, food, budgeting, child care, and decorating”, with the intent to help immigrants Americanize.
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Photograph Titled: Latin-American child at lunch. Nursery school, FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Robstown, Texas
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Children in the Farm Security Administration Camps were offered schooling, and recreation. There were movie theaters that showed films in Spanish. The immigrant population was seen by the farmers as indispensable because at this time in U.S. history there was a severe shortage of American laborers. -
Blog Title: Before there was Brown V. Board of Education, There was Mendez v. Westminster
This blog discussed the importance of a land mark supreme court case that happened two weeks before Brown v. Board of Edu., that desegregated Texas schools. At the time, Mexican children were separated because the superintendent though they were "dirty".
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Interview Recording Titled: Interview with Jesús "Chuy" Negrete, Chicago, Illinois, part 1
In this interview, Jesus Negrete, a musician living in Chicago, discusses the relationship between his career and bilingual education. He used music as a bilingual teaching tool and his platform as an artist to travel to schools, advocating for students.
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Webpage Title: SACNAS : Advancing Hispanics/Chicanos & Native Americans in Science
This web page introduces SACNAS, an organization created in the early 2000's that supports the advancement of Hispanic Americans in fields of STEM, including post high school education and employment.
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Title: “I Juana Live in America: An Immigrant’s Creative Journey”
Author: Juana Medina
Juana grew up in Bogota, Columbia and had a “happy childhood” until the 1980’s, when she remembers the war. It was “far from peaceful”, she recalls. She came to America searching for a “new life”, and her “hard work paid off” when she was accepted into art school. Art, she says, is “a way to bridge those differences”, referring to the differences in cultures between Latin America and the United States.
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Press Release: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to Join Main Stage of 2018 National Book Festival
This Press Release heralds Sonia Sotomayor as the "first Latina Supreme Court Justice" and gives information about her first children's book and the other authors headlining the even with Justice Sotomayor. Link text
