Understanding Latino History: Excavating the Past, Examining the Present

This Latino history textbook is an outstanding reference source for high school students and is ideal as the main textbook for college courses on Latino or Chicano history.

• 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 Latino history students