Finding Home in the Sunbelt: A Study Of Salvadoran Activism In Houston 1980-1999.

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dc.contributorGoldberg, Mark Allan
dc.contributorPerales, Monica
dc.contributorErwing, Douglas
dc.contributor.authorMartinez Alvarenga, Manuel
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-05T16:11:27Z
dc.date.available2020-08-05T16:11:27Z
dc.date.issued2020-05
dc.description.abstractThe decade of the 1980s witnessed an unprecedented migration wave from Central America to the United States. Migrants from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala made their way north, seeking to escape the worsening living conditions in their war-torn countries and settled in cities like Houston creating far-reaching demographic changes. This Honors Thesis centers the activism of the Salvadoran migrant community in Houston during the decades of the 1980s and 1990s to explore the deep connection shared between Houston based religious groups and Central American migrant activists. By analyzing Oral histories from Salvadoran migrants that lived in Houston in the 1980s, media portrayals of migrant groups and organizations in Houston, and archived documents from the Rothko Chapel, I highlight the narratives surrounding the unlikely cooperation between Houston based religious organizations and Dominque de Menil with Central American aid groups and individuals that were connected to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. In so doing, this work presents a new perspective regarding Houston’s history of migrant communal and political activism, along with the formation of the sanctuary movement and the larger Central American diaspora in the United States.
dc.description.departmentHistory, Department of
dc.description.departmentHonors College
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10657/6973
dc.language.isoen
dc.language.isoes
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dc.subjectMigration
dc.subjectCommunity
dc.subjectCommunity Building
dc.subjectCentral America
dc.subjectSalvadoran Migration
dc.subjectRothko Chappel
dc.subjectActivism
dc.subjectReagan
dc.subjectMigration Policies
dc.subjectSegregation
dc.subjectGulfton
dc.subjectHouston
dc.subjectLiberation Theology
dc.subjectSunbelt
dc.subjectBible Belt
dc.subject20th Century History
dc.titleFinding Home in the Sunbelt: A Study Of Salvadoran Activism In Houston 1980-1999.
dc.typeHonors Thesis
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thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
thesis.degree.levelBachelors
thesis.degree.nameBachelor of Arts

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