The Latin American in Wartime United States
| Autor: | W. Rex Crawford |
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| Rok vydání: | 1942 |
| Předmět: |
Government
education.field_of_study Latin Americans Sociology and Political Science Latin American studies business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Population General Social Sciences Heterogeneous population State (polity) Hospitality Political science Ethnology education business media_common |
| Zdroj: | The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 223:123-131 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3349 0002-7162 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/000271624222300119 |
| Popis: | NO OTHER -group of aliens in our midst presents a dichotomy so marked as the heterogeneous population loosely labeled Latin Americans. On the one hand, we have a number of students benefiting by sometimes very liberal scholarships, aided by government as well as private institutions to an extent never equaled by Europeans; at a still higher level there are the distinguished visitors invited with 6clat by the Department of State, the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, or other bodies, to whom all doors are opened, who are lionized to an extent which may interfere with the accomplishment of any serious objectives they may have had in accepting Uncle Sam's hospitality. On the other hand, our immigrant Latin Americans, the Cubans of Florida, the Puerto Ricans of New York, and in vastly greater numbers the Mexicans of the southwest, whether they be newly arrived or descendants of older Spanish-speaking settlers, are a submerged, isolated, or forgotten population, whose presence is felt as a weight, a problem, an annoy |
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