Latino/a history 
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4/24/2022
The Issue of Visibility in Latino Art
by Ricardo Romo
"The moment is ripe for bringing Latino art to public spaces and public museums. The number of talented Latino artists has multiplied over the past two decades, and the opportunity to make their work visible is now."
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SOURCE: Axios
4/4/2022
Cynthia Orozco Sheds Light on Latino Civil Rights Pioneer Alonso Perales
The biography of Perales comes at a time when Texas conservatives are pushing to limit the teaching of histories of racial discrimination.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/4/2022
2022's Labor Uprising Reminds of More Radical Past and Possible Future
by Xochitl Gonzalez
The Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers' Organization encouraged its college-educated members to take on industrial work to support a labor union movement in crisis; the moment encouraged a broader sense of who is a worker. Today, are workers in health, service, and logistics coming to a similar recognition?
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SOURCE: The Metropole
3/23/2022
Planning For The People Y Qué? From Advocacy Planners To Hardcore Punks
by Mike Amezcua
"Punk fliers are planning documents. Not the official kind produced by city planning departments, of course, nor the grassroots plans by neighborhood activists resisting investment capital and gentrification. But these fliers contain a planning schema all the same."
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SOURCE: Boston Review
3/7/2022
West Side Story and the Tragedy of Progressive Hollywood
by Éric Morales-Franceschini
Critical debates about the "West Side Story" remake focus on representation, but ignore the politics of Puerto Rico.
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SOURCE: WTTW
2/26/2022
Historian Mike Amezcua on "Making Mexican Chicago"
Both industry and local realtors were key players in the development of La Villita in southwest Chicago.
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SOURCE: Texas Monthly
1/22/2022
New Documentary on 1996 De La Hoya vs. Chavez Fight Digs Into Complexity of Mexican Ethnicity Across the Border
Director Eva Longoria Bastón's documentary on the 1996 match between Mexican champion Julio César Chávez and LA-born Oscar De La Hoya examines how the fight revealed tensions between Mexican and Mexican-American communities expressed in citizenship, language and sports allegiance.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/18/2022
If Latinos are the Key to 2024, Democrats Should Be Worried
by Geraldo Cadava
"I dream of vigorous town hall-style debates where both parties engage in arguments over whose policies are best, instead of hurling talking points in our general direction from a distance."
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SOURCE: Teen Vogue
12/31/2021
The DC Punk Scene Relied on the Local Latinx Community
by Mike Amezcua
"A big piece is missing from the stories told about punk and hardcore in the 1980s: Primarily, that marginalized spaces and communities in urban America gave a stage to the predominantly white subculture."
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SOURCE: Public Seminar
12/15/2021
Puerto Rican History Deserves More than a Mural
by Jacqueline Lazú
Instead of rehashing "West Side Story," Hollywood should tell the story of Chicago's Young Lords Organization.
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SOURCE: NPR
12/12/2021
Vicente 'Chente' Fernández, 'El Rey' of Ranchera Music, has Died at 81
"Fernandez became an important icon for Mexican immigrants to the U.S. and around the world – who found that his music transported them to the ranches and towns they'd reluctantly left behind in search of opportunity abroad."
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SOURCE: The Metropole
12/8/2021
Rise And Fall Of A Movement — A Review Of “The Young Lords: A Radical History”
by Leo Valdes
Johanna Fernandez's history of the Puerto Rican activist organization reconstructs the movement's roots and shows that an organization formed in 1969 still offers a useful diagnosis of an "urban crisis" rooted in experiences in housing, schools, hospitals, and jails.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/7/2021
Bouie: Language is Not the Democrats' Problem
Historian Gerardo Cadava's research on Hispanic Republicans suggests that there is an enduring affinity for the conservative themes of work and initiative among Latino voters; addressing the desire for upward mobility in concrete ways, not tweaking their language, is the most urgent task facing Democrats.
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SOURCE: KSAT
10/13/2021
Historian: At 100th Anniversary, the Origins of LULAC are in San Antonio
Cynthia Orozco, Ph.D, professor of history and humanities at Eastern New Mexico University, will discuss how Order Sons of America led to the creation of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation’s oldest and largest Hispanic civil rights organization.
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10/17/2021
The Fantasy of Hispanic Heritage Month
by Frank P. Barajas
Conceived by a Congressman to honor the contributions of ethnic Mexicans to American society, Hispanic Heritage Month is based in a mythical Spanish past that obscures the indigenous history of the west and legitimates the succession of power from Iberian to Anglo elites.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/12/2021
When the Young Lords Took Over a Hospital and Changed Public Health Care
by Emma Francis-Snyder
"The dramatic takeover of Lincoln Hospital produced one of the first Patient’s Bill of Rights, changing patients’ relationship with hospitals and doctors nationwide."
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/6/2021
"We All Know Where We Came From": 2021 White Sox Carry on History of Latino Baseball
The Chicago White Sox have returned to the baseball postseason in part because of their core of players from Latin America, which has long been a trademark of the club.
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SOURCE: Texas Monthly
9/14/2021
Why Democrats are Losing Texas Latinos
A significant portion of Tejanos consider themselves white and many vote like Anglo Texans; their history shows the contingency of racial categories and the risk for Democrats of assuming demographics will substitute for political appeal.
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SOURCE: The Nation
8/31/2021
On September 1, 1971 the Pittsburgh Pirates Fielded the First All-Black Team in MLB History
The Pirates' lineup 50 years ago was composed of African American and Afro-Latino players, and offers an occasion to reflect on the changing position of Black players in baseball and of baseball in Black America.
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SOURCE: Boom California
8/23/2021
Review: Geraldo Cadava's "The Hispanic Republican"
by Jerry González
Historian Jerry González says that "The Hispanic Republican is a wake-up call for progressives, particularly white liberals, who uncritically believe that rising Latinx population numbers will naturally shift the political winds."
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