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Episode 5: Prejudice and Pride

Season 1 Episode 5 | 55m 16s

Details the creation of the proud “Chicano” identity, as labor leaders organize farm workers in California, and as activists push for better education opportunities for Latinos, the inclusion of Latino studies, and empowerment in the political process.

Aired: 09/29/13 | 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
Highlights the swelling immigration from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic
Latino Americans serve their country during WWII but still face discrimination at home.
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 – the Mariel exodus – floods Miami