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Episode 2: Empire of Dreams Trailer

Season 1 Episode 2 | 2m 37s

Widespread immigration to the U.S. from Latin countries begins 鈥 first with a small group from Cuba, then a larger one from Mexico. The U.S. helps liberate Cuba, and seizes Puerto Rico, in the brief Spanish American War; With the onset of the Great Depression, Immigrants encouraged in the 20s are deported en masse in the 30s.

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
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