`We belong here`: Marquette professor documents 100+ years of Wisconsin`s Latino history in new book

When Sergio Gonza?lez visited the Milwaukee County Historical Society for the first time 12 years ago, he expected to spend hours tracing his family`s history through boxes and boxes of Wisconsin’s Latino history. After all, the Milwaukee County Historical Society has collected over a million photos and documents since it was established in 1935.

Instead, the archivist dropped off just three boxes for Gonza?lez to sort through.

“I was crestfallen,” Gonza?lez writes in his new book. “Three boxes: this was all the archivists had preserved on my community?”

The book, “Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin,” is Gonza?lez`s attempt to place the Latino community`s extensive history on Wisconsin`s center stage. Released last month, is the first book to compile more than 100 years of Latino history in the state...