Nicols Kanellos

Broschiertes Buch

Latino Firsts

Trailblazers and Milestones in United States History

Beschreibung

Salute the Latino legends, pioneers, and trailblazers! Celebrate the Hispanic milestones, accomplishments, and victories! An inspiring exploration of groundbreaking individuals and pioneering events, Latino Firsts: Trailblazers and Milestones in United States History honors the indelible mark Hispanics have made on American history and society. Featured are brigadier general Richard E. Cavazos, Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral, actress America Ferrera, playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Francisco Ayala, artist Jen-Michel Basquiat, weightlifter Sarah Elizabeth Robles, and more than a thousand other notable people and accomplishments, such as … 1. Astronaut Frank Rubio (1975-) set the American record for the longest spaceflight of 371 days aboard the International Space Station 2. Oscar Muñoz CEO of United Airlines; Roberto Goizueta, CEO of Coca-Cola 3. Spanish-born philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952) was the first Latino philosopher and writer to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard 4. Fashion designers Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera 5. Film director/producer Eva Longoria was named USA Today’s Women of the Year in 2024 6. Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to set up settlements in Alaska and Canada’s Pacific Coast, at least twelve of them 7. Cattle and ranching first introduced to Hawaii by Hispanic cowboys from the Southwest 8. The first admiral of the US Navy, David Farragut, was the son of a Spaniard and a US Revolutionary War hero 9. Spanish immigrant Rafael Guastavino, architect and designer, whose landmark designs include Grand Central Station, Carnegie Hall, the old Penn Station, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art 10. Many US laws are based on Hispanic-Mexican law, including family law (community property, common-law marriage, homestead law, adoption law) and water and land rights laws 11. The recent changing of names for military bases from Confederate soldiers has resulted in the naming of Fort Hidalgo 12. Before slavery was abolished in the United States, Latinos in Florida and Texas operated extensive “underground railroads” assisting escaped slaves to reach freedom in Hispanic Florida, Texas and Mexico 13. Hernandez v. Texas, a 1964 Supreme Court case brought by Mexican American attorneys that desegregated juries, was a precedent for Brown v. Board of Education 14. Astronaut Ellen Ochoa later served as the Director of NASA’s John Space Center 15. Latinos from the Caribbean and Mexico introduced the cotton, cattle and sugar industries to the United States 16. Virologist/bacteriologist Sarah Stewart, the first woman, and Latina, to earn a medical degree from Georgetown University Medical School, whose research showed that viruses can cause various types of cancer 17. Carlos Juan Finlay, a Cuban doctor educated in Philadelphia, who discovered that yellow fever was spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito 18. baseball players such as Roberto Clemente, considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time and Alex Rodriguez, the highest paid ballplayer at the time 19. multiple Oscar winners, including Anthony Quinn and Rita Moreno 20. And thousands of other milestones and firsts! Milestones, victories and success are not always noticed when they happen. Sometimes an achievement is only recognized years later. Revel and rejoice in the renowned and lesser-known, barrier-breaking trailblazers in all fields—arts, entertainment, business, civil rights, education, government, invention, journalism, religion, science, sports, music, and more. Latino Firsts illuminates the rich and important history of Hispanic Americans!

Autor

Nicolás Kanellos, Ph.D. is the director of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Heritage of the United States, which researches Latino history in the United States. Since 1980, he has been a professor at the University of Houston, where he became the first Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Studies. He is founding publisher of the noted Hispanic literary journal The Americas Review and the nation’s oldest Hispanic publishing house, Arte Público Press. In 2024, President Joe Biden presented Dr. Kanellos with the National Humanities Medal. In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Dr. Kanellos to the National Council on the Humanities, and he received the 1996 Denali Press Award of the American Library Association. He was the first U.S. Latino to be inducted into the Spanish American Royal Academy of Literature, Arts & Science, and he was awarded the Anderson Imbert Lifetime Achievement Award by the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, as well as the Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic Queen, the highest decoration given to a civilian by the Spanish government. He has authored or contributed to numerous books on Latino history, culture, and literature, including Visible Ink Press’ Latino Almanac: From Early Explorers to Corporate Leaders and Latino Firsts: Trailblazers and Milestones in United States History as well as the Hispanic Literature of the United States: A Comprehensive Reference and the Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States. He resides in Houston, Texas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Visible Ink Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 180mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 804g
• ISBN-13: 9781578598489
• ISBN-10: 1578598486
• Artikelnr.: 71704477