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Episode 3: War and Peace

Season 1 Episode 3 | 55m 16s

Moves into the World War II years and those that follow, as Latino Americans serve their new country by the hundreds of thousands 鈥 but still face discrimination and a fight for civil rights back in the United States.

Aired: 09/22/13 | Expires: 11/12/23
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
Extras
Takes viewers through the past 30 years of immigration and transformation
Details the creation of the proud 鈥淐hicano鈥 identity
Highlights the swelling immigration from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic
Documents how the American population begins to be reshaped by the influx of immigrants
Explores the period from 1565-1880.
In the 1960s and 1970s a generation of Mexican Americans build a new "Chicano" identity
Manifest Destiny pushes the U.S west into the Mexican territories of the South West
New waves of immigration bring people from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic
Service during the war allows Latinos to make unprecedented gains in civil rights
From Cuba a second wave of refugees to United States 鈥 the Mariel exodus 鈥 floods Miami