PBS Latino Americans: Peril and Promise

Grade Levels: High School, Middle School Types: Video Resources Questions: How can we create powerful learning environments for our students?, How should we teach about migration?

Episode six of the Latino Americans explores Latino immigration to the United States from the 1980s until the 2010s. PBS describes the episode this way:

Takes viewers through the past 30 years, with a second wave of Cubans arriving in Miami during the Mariel exodus and with hundreds of thousands Salvadorans, Nicaraguans and Guatemalans fleeing civil wars, death squads and unrest to go north into a new land — transforming the United States along the way.

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