Hispanic Heritage Month Resources

History

• Top 8 Reasons Why and How We Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
• Hispanic Heritage Month
• Latino Americans PBS Documentary: is a landmark six-hour documentary featuring interviews with nearly 100 Latinos and more than 500 years of History

Mercado artesanal , Otavalo, Ecuador. Photo by Andrea Leon on Unsplash

Zapopan Centro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, Photo by Roman Lopez on Unsplash

Community & Culture

• Nuestra America: 30 Inspiring Latinas/Latinos Who have Shaped the United States
• Fandango Without Borders

Havana Cuba, Photo by Alexander Kunze on Unsplash

Articles

• When Labels Don’t Fit: Hispanics and Their View of Identity
• Founders of Sabor Latino: Keeping traditions alive at Saint Rose

Sabor Latino founders

Videos

• Peru is diversity- Black and Proud in Peru
• 12 Facts About Hispanic Heritage Month
• Hispanic Heritage Month- Hispanics Past and Present
• The Awesome Story behind Hispanic Heritage Month

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Resources

• NPR Codeswitch Podcast – What Does It Mean to be Latino? The ‘Light-Skinned Privilege’ Edition (talks about mestize)
• NPR Codeswitch Podcast – The Kid Mero Talks “What It Means to Be Latino’ (real take, and has language J)
• Pew Research – When Labels Don’t Fit: Hispanics and Their View of Identity (Touches on the variety of categories that Hispanic and Latin people get grouped into.)
• Afro-Peruanos video

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