Harvest of empire: a history of Latinos in America

pt. 1. Roots (Las raíces). Conquerors and victims : the image of America forms (1500-1800)

The Spanish borderlands and the making of an empire (1810-1898)

Banana republics and bonds : taming the empire's backyard (1898-1950)

pt. 2. Branches (Las ramas). Puerto Ricans : citizens yet foreigners

Mexicans : pioneers of a different type

Cubans : special refugees

Dominicans : from the Duarte to the George Washington Bridge

Central Americans : intervention comes home to roost

Colombians and Panamanians : overcoming division and disdain

pt. 3. Harvest (La cosecha). The return of Juan Seguín : Latinos and the remaking of American politics

Immigrants old and new : closing borders of the mind

Speak Spanish, you're in America! : El Huracán over language and culture

Free trade : the final conquest of Latin America

Puerto Rico, U.S.A. : possessed and unwanted.