Latino/a history

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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. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/5/2022
  

  Marfa, TX School to Become National Historic Site Preserving Story of Segregated Mexican Americans

  The segregation of Anglo and Mexican students in Texas was not always enforced by law, but local custom and prejudice was sufficient in many places. 

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• SOURCE: U.S. Department of Agriculture
  9/29/2022
  

  Mireya Loza's History of Farm Work Will Shape Equity in Agriculture Industry

  “We should not be creating a system in which guest workers are exploited and exploitable, and we're basically justifying it by saying, well, they're feeding their families.”

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  9/19/2022
  

  At its 50th Reunion, La Raza Unida Asks How to Pass the Torch

  La Raza Unida grew out of civil rights mobilization in the 1960s and worked to mobilize the large, complex, and internally divided communities of ethnic Mexican Texans, focusing on education and voting rights, and struggling to bridge radical and moderate political outlooks. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/20/2022
  

  US Neglect of Puerto Rico is in the News, but the Main Historical Relationship has been Abuse

  by Jaquira Diaz

  From forced disruption of native industry through mass sterilization and forced austerity, one writer argues that the only escape from mainland abuse is full Puerto Rican independence. 

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• 9/18/2022
  

  Gil Coronado: The Padrino of National Hispanic Month

  by Ricardo Romo

  After dropping out of high school to begin his Air Force career at age 15, Gil Coronado became the most influential leader in expanding the federal recognition of Hispanic heritage from a week to a month. 

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• 8/28/2022
  

  The Chicano Moratorium in East LA and Ventura County

  by Frank P. Barajas

  Chicano Moratorium commemorations continue today in communities in and out of East Los Angeles as they mark a history that centers on the experience of ethnic Mexican and Latinx peoples in the US to inspire and reinspire the young and old, to continue their struggle to realize the ideal of justice for all.

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• SOURCE: Minnesota Public Radio
  8/12/2022
  

  Kelly Lytle Hernández on the Linked Histories of Mexico and the US

  "Many Americans don’t know that the histories of the United States and Mexico are inseparably intertwined. But historian Kelly Lytle Hernández says you cannot fully understand one without the other."

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  8/4/2022
  

  Review: Kelly Lytle Hernandez Shows There is No US History Without Mexican History

  by Jonna Perrillo

  The political upheaval of the Mexican revolution affected the politics of ethnic Mexicans on both sides of the border and transformed the political relations between both governments and the transnational working classes of the border region.