Presidential politics and Hispanics

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PBS World Channel National Broadcast: Virginia, May 7, 2017/Nationally, May 10, 2017

Geraldo L. Cadava is an associate professor in the department of history at Northwestern University where he specializes in United States and Latin American history, with a focus Latinos in the United States and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Cadava is currently writing a book about the rise and fall of a conservative Hispanic movement between the 1960s and the 1990s. The book focuses on the evolution of conservatism among Hispanics—the label they chose for themselves—from the establishment of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly through its fracture due to anti-immigrant policies including California’s Proposition 187. Cadava's first book, Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland, won the 2014 Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians and was a finalist for the David J. Weber and Bill Clements Prize for the Best Non-fiction Book on Southwestern America. His writing has appeared in The Journal of American History, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic online, the San Francisco Chronicle online, the Arizona Daily Star, and in the publications of the Immigration Policy Center, the National Park Service, and the American Historical Association.