Volume 1, Number 1 (1996)

Volume 1, inaugural issue, highlights the mission of Diálogo: to provide a forum with a wider, more inclusive perspective and readership. While many journals are limited in scope and content, and primarily written through the lens of academia, Diálogostrives to provide a publishing forum for academics and community alike on issues affecting Latin Americans and Latinos in the U.S. Topics include a recounting of the immigrant experience for one Mexican family as they journey from Canelas, Durango, to California in the 1920s – 1940s, with a glimpse of the subsequent social and cultural tensions between Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the 1950s; the Afro-Cuban movement and its influence on the national Cuban identity through the contemporary literature of Miguel Barnet; a photo-essay documenting the Puerto Rican experience in Chicago’s Lincoln Park during the 1960s; an essay highlighting housing authorities’ attempts to intimidate Latino homeowners in Chicago’s Northwest Suburbs during the early 1990s (originally published in The Chicago Reporter, 1996); and the role of Hispanic bookstores in promoting Latino culture.