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What Do Haiti, Brazil, and Puerto Rico Reveal About Regional Labels? - Testing the Limits of the Latin American Category | Sleepy Facts About History
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Most of us carry a mental map of the Americas where a bold line at the Rio Grande divides the United States and Canada from a single zone labeled Latin America. This map is tidy, but it is historically misleading. The term itself was coined in the 1850s by exiles in Paris as a political project designed to forge a bloc against Anglo-Saxon expansion, and in doing so, it left out more history than it included.
This episode examines the boundaries of that category through seven specific…
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