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Racial Intolerance During The California Gold Rush, Raul David Lopez
Racial Intolerance During The California Gold Rush, Raul David Lopez
Theses and Dissertations
The California Gold Rush started in 1848 and lasted to the mid-1850s. Though short in duration, the impact the Gold Rush had in the United States, along with populations from many areas in the rest of the world, proved detrimental to many different ethnic groups that arrived to the mines and came into contact with various cultures, principally the white Anglo-American culture. This thesis focuses on themes such as race, gender roles, free labor versus unfree labor, extra-legal violence, and informal laws passed in the mines to exclude foreigners. It addresses why certain nationalities were taxed and targeted as foes, …
A Conversation With Rita Moreno: Examining The Employment Challenges Of The Latino Actor, Valente Rodriguez
A Conversation With Rita Moreno: Examining The Employment Challenges Of The Latino Actor, Valente Rodriguez
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Rita Moreno has worked as an actress for more than 70 years. Her first acting job was in the play Skydrift, on Broadway, at age 13, in 1944. She is in an unusual position having garnered all the major acting awards and the presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award bestowed upon a non-military person in the United States. She is the only Latino EGOT as she has an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony, the top awards in the field of entertainment. I thought it would be interesting to ask her what her biggest challenge was in …