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Spanish Americans


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    • Americans, Spanish
    • Americans, European Spanish
    • European Spanish Americans
  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Sanjuán, Pedro. La macumba, 1957(symphony by a Spanish American composer) (OCoLC)4866664
    • found: Encyclopedia.com, July 5, 2022(Sanjuán, Pedro; Spanish-born American conductor, teacher, and composer; b. San Sebastian, Nov. 15, 1886; d. Washington, D.C., Oct. 18, 1976; in 1942 he was appointed prof. of composition at Converse Coll. in Spartanburg, S.C. In 1947 he became a naturalized American citizen)
    • found: LCSH, July 5, 2022(Spanish Americans. UF European Spanish Americans. SN Here are entered works on citizens or permanent residents of the United States who trace their heritage directly to Spain.)
    • found: The Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America, 2014(Spanish Americans are immigrants or descendants of people from Spain; the first Europeans to settle in what is now the United States, Spanish immigrants arrived on the mainland in 1565, when the first-known Spanish settlement was established in what now is known as St. Augustine, Florida. This was followed by several other colonial-era Spanish settlements, in modern-day New Mexico, California, Arizona, Texas, and Louisiana)
    • found: Wikipedia, July 5, 2022(Spanish Americans (Spanish: españoles estadounidenses, hispanoestadounidenses, or hispanonorteamericanos) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly from Spain. They are the longest-established European American group in the modern United States of America; the term "Spanish American" is used only to refer to Americans whose self-identified ancestry originates directly from Spain, and excludes Americans whose Spanish ancestors immigrated to Latin America first before coming to the United States)
  • History Notes

    • [Established September 2022.]
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  • Change Notes

    • 2022-07-05: new
    • 2022-09-08: revised
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