Over generations, communities from the Spanish Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America and beyond have built spaces that preserve identity and memory even as they help shape national culture. Often, these places document the ongoing quest for inclusion, equal treatment and full representation in America. As Louis DeSipio, professor of political science and Chicano/Latino studies at the University of California, Irvine, writes, their “demands were similar to those of other excluded groups in U.S. society seeking an equal voice.”

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