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COPYRIGHT 2001 Transaction Publishers, Inc.
Vincent C. de Baca. Denver: Colorado Historical Society, 1999. x + 294 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $21.95.
Vicente C. de Baca's collection of historical essays covers the history of southeastern Colorado's Hispanos from the Spanish empire to the present. Hispanos settled southeastern Colorado three hundred years ago and still live there today. They first came as settlers, who then became laborers and trades-men and who today live there mainly as impoverished farmers, migrant workers, and laborers. Following the United States' conquest in 1848, the book's articles record how Euro-American newcomers used discriminatory education, housing, and labor practices to lock Hispanos and Mexicans into a class of...
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