Hispanic Heritage Month: Media

Located at the library Circulation Desk

Located at the library Circulation Desk.

Traces over three generations of an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs.

Located at library Circulation Desk.

Latin music USA highlights the great American music created by Latinos, and celebrates the Latin rhythms at the heart of jazz, rock, country, and rhythm and blues. It's a fresh take on American musical history, reaching across five decades to portray the rich mix of sounds created by Latinos and embraced by all.

Located at the library Circulation Desk.

Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High School, who pushes and inspires 18 inner-city Hispanic students who were struggling with math to become math whizzes.

Located at the library Circulation Desk

Located at the library Circulation Desk

Examines Latin Americans through the prism of the 2008 presidential election. Focuses on the strategies used by the Obama and McCain campaigns to attract Latin American voters, and how the immigration debate is affecting such efforts. Investigates whether the Latino voting bloc is already merging with the general electorate as European ethnic blocs did in the past, or whether globalism, not assimilation, is the new model.