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."