HIST 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Zapatista Army Of National Liberation, Commodification, Dilma Rousseff
13 Apr 2016
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04/13--latin american immigration to the us and canada. Short film crucero/crossroads abt la immigration to us/canada. Immigrants having to take on english-sounding names. Lack of understanding of vast diversity w/in hispanic/latin@ peoples. 2000--hispanic populatio in us larger than black population. Latinos: 35 million (13% of us population) By 2050, latinos may comprise 24% of us population, and be majority in california and new mexico. Us no longer black and white: multi-ethnic, multi-racial society, latin american migration-- leads to new concepts of race in us (and canada) Many temporary foreign workers are latin american. Canada has been more open to refugees from authoritarian govts in la. New indigenous movements in latin america--late 20th and 21st centuries. New indigenous ethnic movements--in the following countries. Southern mexico--(chiapas)--zapatista national liberaiton army (ezln) 1994- present. Bolivia--evo morales and the movement to socialism party (mas) Previously idea of the mestizo nation was predominant in latin america (from 1920s)
