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ERIC Number: EJ780767
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Sep-20
Pages: 4
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1557-5411
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A Historical Omission
Stuart, Reginald
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, v24 n16 p20-23 Sep 2007
For nearly a decade, Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez and a small army of students and volunteer colleagues around the country have been aggressively chasing and documenting a rapidly vanishing chapter of American history--the American Latino and Latina experience during World War II. Along the way, they recorded nearly 600 interviews of about two hours each. They found thousands of pictures of Latinos in uniform, assigned to segregated units by language and, more often than not, treated with much the same disdain as their Black and Asian brothers and sisters. They found families who had as many as five sons in the war at one time and even an American of Mexican descent who had been repatriated to Mexico during the Depression only to be called to duty during the war. Rivas-Rodriguez and her team were more than a bit surprised last fall when they learned at a WWII gathering in New Orleans that a major documentary featuring no Latino veterans would air this month on PBS stations around the nation. This article reports the actions made by Rivas-Rodriguez and her team in reaction to the PBS documentary.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Adult Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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