Latino/a history

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/30/2023
  

  Understanding Latino White Supremacy

  by Geraldo Cadava

  "In fact, Latino white supremacy isn’t an oxymoron, and carrying out a premeditated mass shooting in the United States is one of the more American things a Latino could do."

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  5/27/2023
  

  Culture War Puts Latino Professors in Difficult Positions

  For many academics of color, attacks on "critical race theory" or "wokeness" seek to render understanding of their communities academically illegitimate. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/22/2023
  

  Critical (In)attention to Bad Bunny Headlining Coachella Latest Example of Dismissal of "Latin" Music Artists

  by Petra Rivera-Rideau and Vanessa Díaz

  At the fashionable California festival, the Puerto Rican artist took fans through a history of Latin American musical styles; the American press has too often ignored such history to portray performers as exotic, hypersexual, and foreign, instead of as part of a hemisphere-wide process of cultural creation and mixture. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/12/2023
  

  Texas Shooting Highlights Long History of Anti-Black Violence in Latino Communities

  by Cecilia Márquez

  History shows that there have long been strains of anti-black racism in Latino communities, and that the categories "white" and "latino" are not mutually exclusive. Understanding today's far right requires attention to those details. 

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• SOURCE: Zocalo
  4/10/2023
  

  Claiming a Latino Place in Chicago

  by Mike Amezcua

  Like their African American contemporaries, ethnic Mexicans in Chicago have a long history of organizing to overturn residential segregation. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/25/2023
  

  Should the Census Consider Latinos a "Race"?

  by Geraldo Cadava

  Although major Latino civil rights organizations have endorsed a proposal to combine two census questions and make "Hispanic or Latino" a racial category. Afro-Latino/a advocates say that this would make it impossible to evaluate internal divisions around skin color and ancestry. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  3/1/2023
  

  Is Globalization Changing Mexico's Relationship to Death?

  by Humberto Beck

  Post-revolutionary Mexico embraced cultural commemorations of the dead—Diá de los Muertos—to help conceal the violence of the regime's rise. Now, that "traditional" culture is again being transformed by global cultural appropriation and the escalating violence of global drug trafficking.

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• SOURCE: Religion News Service
  2/10/2023
  

  The Virgin of Guadalupe is a Constant on the Changing Streets of Los Angeles

  The image of the Virgin Mary is both a protector of small businesses and a symbol of ethnic pride across Los Angeles; photographer Oscar Rodriguez Zapata has been documenting her appearances for a decade. 

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• 1/29/2023
  

  Latino Activists Changed San Antonio in the 1960s

  by Ricardo Romo

  San Antonio in the 1960s faced many of the same challenges of cities throughout the South; its emerging Mexican American political leadership helped steer the city in a progressive direction. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/23/2023
  

  Miami-Dade has Lurched Right, but Still Loves "Obamacare"

  by Catherine Mas

  Even though conservative Latinos in Miami are generally suspicious of "socialism", the long history of local government support for medical access means that many carve out a big exception for the Affordable Care Act. 

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• SOURCE: La Voz
  1/15/2023
  

  The History of Mexican Americans in Austin

  by Cynthia E. Orozco

  A historian works to develop a chronicle of Mexican American community events in the city of Austin with a local community newspaper. 

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• SOURCE: Inquest
  1/10/2023
  

  A History of Violence in the US/Mexico Borderlands

  by Brian Behnken

  Policing both the border and Mexican American communities in the Southwest has always been entangled with white supremacist violence, the author argues in a new book. 

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• SOURCE: Yahoo
  12/10/2022
  

  Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández Teams Up with New LA City Councilors to Review City's History

  A historian and two recently-elected progressive city council members teamed up to tour the sites of the city's community of Mexican revolutionaries in exile, asking how the past can inform social movements today. 

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• SOURCE: NextCity
  11/10/202
  

  Decades in Making, San Diego Museum will Honor Chicano Community and Movement

  "Organizers and community members hope the museum will document the history of Chicano Park and continue educating future generations about Barrio Logan’s history."

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• 11/11/2022
  

  The Wartime Service and Postwar Activism of One Latino Veteran

  by Ricardo Romo

  For Veteran's Day, a historian shares photos, and the history, of his father's wartime experiences. Like many of his compatriots, Henry Romo was reluctant to discuss those experiences, but drew on them to work for equal citizenship at home. 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  10/27/2022
  

  Can Americans Understand the Divisions in Latino Politics?

  by Geraldo Cadava

  Despite the lip service both parties pay to welcoming (and deserving) the growing Latino vote, do their non-Latino leaders actually understand the complexities of this large demographic category? Do they want to? 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/1/2022
  

  Black-Brown Solidarity has been Elusive in Los Angeles

  by Erin Aubry Kaplan

  For decades, the increasing Latino presence in previously Black neighborhoods in South Los Angeles has raised concerns about political representation and hopes for a cross-racial movement for a more just city. Recent leaked city councl tapes show things are far from settled. 

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• 10/30/2022
  

  How US Latinos Resurrected the Day of the Dead

  by Ricardo Romo

  American Latinos have transformed the day from a private ritiual of communion with ancestors to a public affirmation of heritage. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/20/2022
  

  Remarks by LA City Council Members Struck at Local Oaxacan Community

  by A.S. Dillingham

  Remarks stigmatizing Mexican immigrants with indigenous ancestry point to the fallacy of a unitary Latino identity and highlight the persistence of racial hierarchies in Latin America. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/15/2022
  

  My Students are Missing Their Own History

  by Arlene Dávila

  Disagreement over the particular labels used to describe Latino/a (or Latinx) people shouldn't overshadow the need for a more inclusive history.