Understanding Latino History: Excavating the Past, Examining the Present

This Latino history textbook is an outstanding reference source that covers many different Latinos groups within a single comprehensive narrative.

• Provides information that is accessible to a general student audience, supplying a comprehensive narrative history that covers various Latino groups along with profiles of notable Latinos from every era

• Covers all Latino groups, placing the history of Mexican Americans alongside the cultures and experiences of Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, and Central and South Americans

• Includes primary sources with guiding questions that will help students develop interpretive, critical thinking skills

• Ideally suited to serve as a reference source and as a classroom survey text for students studying Latino history