Led by: Prof. Geraldo Cadava (Northwestern University)
Course Number: AMHI 682
Semesters: Summer 2023, Spring 2025
Image: Associated Press, Coretta Scott King and Cėsar Chavez join hands during Mass, 1972. (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC09817)
The History of Latina and Latino People in the US
The History of Latina and Latino People in the US
Course Description
In this course, we will explore the history of Latinos in the United States—and across the Americas—from the sixteenth century through the early twenty-first century. The history of Latinos in the United States covers themes such as race, migration, labor, and empire. It is the history of a community, or, rather, several communities, including Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Dominican Americans, Central Americans, and Cuban Americans. The members of these communities have moved within and between the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean, where they’ve struggled almost continuously for equality and belonging. Ultimately, students will gain a deeper sense of the issues and histories that bring Latinas and Latinos together, and those that continue to divide them.
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About the Scholar
Geraldo Cadava, Professor of History, Northwestern University
Geraldo Cadava is a professor of history at Northwestern University. He focuses on Latinos in the United States, the US-Mexico borderlands, and Latin American immigration. Cadava is the author of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump and Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland. He is working on an overview of Latino history since the Spanish conquest called A Thousand Bridges, to be published by Crown.