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.