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latin migratory history:

- the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848): put the end to the war between U.S.A. and Mexico the loss of some territories (for example the actual Arizona and Texas) by Mexico.

- the Spanish-Cuban-American War: concluded with the Treaty of Paris (1898) established the U.S. predominance on Puerto Rico.

- the Jones Act (1917): extended american citizenship to the islanders

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• ex mexicans citizens started to feel foreign in their own homelands
• Puerto Ricans (despite their U. S. citizenship) were perceived like immigrants from a foreign country: they were often marginalized firstly due to racist discrimination and later as a group presumed to comprise a politically apathetic “underclass.”

english learning obligation by the U. S. government

reaction by latin ethnic group

Spanglish = result of their determination to keep alive their identity