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Title: Latinos in Nevada: A Political, Economic, and Social Profile

Citation Type: Book, Whole

Publication Year: 2021

ISBN: 9781948908993

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Abstract: The Southwest region of the United States has had a Hispanic presence for more than 400 years. Historical accounts reveal a long history of Hispanic settlement in the region that began with the establishment of the Spanish colonial territory of New Spain in 1521.1 For 300 years, the Southwest, including what is present-day Nevada, was controlled by Spain, until Mexico established its independence from Spain on August 24, 1821. For more than twenty years, Mexico would retain control of the territory that now comprises the states of Texas, California, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and areas of Colorado and Wyoming.2 Mexico would eventually lose control of this territory to the United States after its defeat in the Mexican-American War of 1848.3 And two years later, in 1850, with the first US Census that provided detailed household information, we began to have data confirming the enduring and impactful presence of Hispanics and Latinos in the Southwest, and specifically in the territory that would later become the state of Nevada.

Url: https://muse-jhu-edu.ezp3.lib.umn.edu/book/83348

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Authors: Damore, David F.; Kopalyan, Nerses; Howard, Tiffiany O.; Tuman, John P.

Publisher: University of Nevada Press

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Pages: 1-238

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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