Database Highlight #11: We've got the Heritage for That
National Hispanic Heritage Month is officially under way! Hispanic Americans have been a part of the American experience well before the Declaration of Independence. This week’s database highlight, Latino American Experience, traces Latin-American history from the Mayan Empire to modern times. Using first and secondary sources, the timeline takes users through the Great Depression and the Latin-American experience of the civil rights movement. Learn more about the modern era when Latinos became the fastest growing American population.
The Latino American Experience: The American Mosaic documents the rich heritage and current culture of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Guatemalans, Cubans, Dominicans, Colombians, Ecuadorians, and other Hispanic groups in the United States. Their stories are detailed through a robust collection of primary and secondary sources, beginning with pre-16th century Mayan, Incan, and Aztec empires and continuing through to the present day, with treatment also given to cultural themes including coming-of-age rituals, music, literature, and cuisine. On the controversial issues shaping the modern Latino American experience—such as immigration reform, media portrayals, and voting access and influence—credentialed academics offer varied perspectives to serve as both sources and exemplars of scholarly argumentation. – from the vendor
Let’s go to the “real” world for this week’s open site. Where in the Metro and surrounding areas do you like to go to soak up some Latin culture? Could be a restaurant, a festival, a museum, your abuela’s kitchen – anywhere is fair game. List your place in the comment along with one of this week’s action steps.
My favorite places are Plaza Mayor at the Crossroads; formally the Crossroads Mall, this once dead space is now filled with neat stores and wrestling – yes you read that right. I also enjoy buying pan white flour and candy from Supermercados Morelos (Moore location).
Action Steps (pick one)
- Pick a time period from Latino American Experience and list one interesting fact
- Using the advanced search, find a speech about ‘war’. List the speech title.
Mexican candy for all respondents! Double candy if you respond (at least in part) in Spanish!
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Comments
Hola, Sadie!
Gracias. Mi espanol esta muy mal.
Mi restaurante favorito esta El Fogon de Edgar. Ellos tienen muy delicioso comida Colombian.
La Epoca: 1900-1910
El Dato Interesante: Desafortunadamente, la violenca a Mexico no ha cambiado. Muchos Mexicanos siguen inmigrando a los Estados Unidos debido a la violencia. (Gracias Google Translate y Spanish Dictionary.)
La Guerra: "Charles Sumner speech on the Mexican-American War (1847)"
My favorite Mexican restaurant is Cantino Bravo Mexican Grill - 23rd and Rockwell - makes the guacamole right at your table. I could a meal out of it and chips.
During the Spanish Conquest, 1521-1535- Historians often summarize the justification behind Spain’s colonization of the Americas as the "three Gs": gold, glory, and God.
Proclamation announcing State of War speech -
On April 23, 1846, Mexican president Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga delivered this address to the Mexican people, announcing that although neither the United States nor Mexico had formally declared war, a state of war did exist and that he would organize the country's defenses against a possible U.S. attack. The U.S. Congress did not formally declare war against Mexico until May 13, by which time fighting had already erupted along the Rio Grande River.
Sorry my 2 years of high school Spanish over 40 years ago is way too rusty!
Español
Mi restaurante favorito es Birriería Díaz en Bethany. Los tacos de lengua son peligrosamente deliciosos.
Un hecho interesante es que un esclavista estadounidense llamado William Walker intentó crear un estado esclavo en Centroamérica en los años 1850. Se apoderó de Nicaragua e intentó invadir a Costa Rica. Costa Rica hoy en día celebra el día cuando destruyó ese plan malvado en la batalla de Rivas en el 11 de Abril del 1856.
Desafortunadamente, la base de datos no tiene el discurso que el presidente de Costa Rica dio antes de empezar la campaña.
English
My favorite restaurant is Birriería Díaz. Their tongue tacos are dangerously delicious.
An interesting fact is that an American slaver by the name of William Walker tried to create a slave state in Central America in the 1850s. He took over Nicaragua and tried to invade Costa Rica. These days Costa Rica celebrates the 11th of April as the day it destroyed that evil plan at the Battle of Rivas in 1856.
Alas, the database does not have the speech that the president of Costa Rica gave at the start of the campaign.
Esperanto
Mia plejŝatata ristoracio estas Birriería Díaz. Ĝiaj langotakoj estas dangere bongustaj.
Interesiga fakto estas ke dum la jardeko 1850 usona sklavisto nomita William Walker klopodis krei sklavoŝtaton en Centra Ameriko. Li trompe ekregis Nikaragvon kaj intencis invadi Kostarikon. Kostariko nun festas la 11an de aprilo ĉar tiam ili detruis tiun aĉan planon je la batalo de Rivas dum la jaro 1856.
Bedaŭre la datumaro ne havas kion diris la presidento de Kostariko je la komenco de la kampajno.
Is that the restaurant we had lunch in that one time? If so, it was really good!
And Esperanto? Now you're just showing off ;)
No se si es un dato interesante, pero de acuerdo al base de datos, la cancion "Despacito" es la cancion espanol mas popular despues "Macarena" en 1995.
Macarena
Now I have that song stuck in my head. Why Sadie!? Why?!
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Todavía estoy nueva en esta ciudad y no tengo un restaurante favorito, pero me gustan todas estas sugerencias.
El hecho más interesante que leí fue sobre la influencia que la cultura de los incas tieneen la sociedad hoy en dia.
Gracias a Google Translate, Wiktionary y especialmente mi amiga que me ayudo. (Y "Billy La Bufanda" también! :) )
And I forgot to list a speech title! One of the speeches I found was "Manuel de Quesada: Address to Ulysses S. Grant" from December of 1873.