Category: Columns & Features
Report: Undocumented youth turn to civic activism to fight for their right to stay in the U.S.
LatinaLista — UC Irvine anthropologist Leo Chavez and Roberto Gonzales, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service, have co-authored a study showing how undocumented immigrant youth, faced with dwindling options in life due to their citizenship status, resort to political and civic activism. The study, “Awakening to a Nightmare”: Abjectivity [...]
Spotlight on Bolivia: The “Coca Diplomacy” of Evo Morales
By Alexander Frye Council on Hemispheric Affairs At last month’s meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, Bolivian President Evo Morales made headlines by dramatically brandishing a coca leaf he had apparently smuggled into the Austrian city between the pages of a book. The coca leaf, which is the unrefined source [...]
A first step in diversifying the children’s book publishing industry
By Cheryl Klein CBC Diversity One of the goals of the CBC Diversity Committee is to recruit a wider, more diverse range of people to work in the children’s publishing industry. In service of this goal, committee members visit schools in the New York area to talk about how we got into the industry and [...]
Guest Voz: Rodolfo Acuña — Illusion breeds disillusion, especially in politics
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista I recently relented to pressure of a former student to go on Facebook. He persuaded on its usefulness as an organizing tool. Once I got on FB I could see that I could not break my classroom habits and I feared that I would come across as too preachy. The [...]
Study: Latino Cancer Patients Suffer More Pain, Severe Sadness
SaludToday Latino patients reported significantly higher rates of pain, numbness, cognition difficulties, vomiting and severe sadness than non-Hispanics in a recent survey of 622 cancer patients awaiting appointments at three hospitals in the Bronx, New York City’s poorest borough, Internal Medicine News reports. About 45% of Hispanic patients reported moderate to severe pain, more than [...]
Entrepreneurs in Guatemala dish up their version of American food trucks to serve locals
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA CITY — When in July of 2010 the municipality of Guatemala City called for all red buses to be removed from certain parts of the capital, Hugo Cristal and his business partner Alexander Escobar came up with a novel way to keep their bus in service — a fast-food restaurant [...]
Hispanic Students Narrow Science Achievement Gap on NAEP Exam
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat The achievement gap between Latino and white eighth-graders in science is narrowing, according to National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data released on Thursday. Between 2009 and 2011, average science scores among Hispanic students increased by five points, compared with a three-point increase for black students and one [...]
Latino immigrant works his way up the vine to create own label
Vino Latino Fernando Candelario followed in the footsteps of his parents, Jose and Anita Candelario, who have been working in the vineyards of the Napa Valley since they arrived from Mexico in 1979 by coming here himself in 1984. His first job was working in the cellar at Mondavi. While working there, he met Greg [...]
Discovering new trends – Tribal music: Musical or cultural movement?
By Juan Miret A Hispanic Matter What happens when you mix pre-Hispanic sounds with electronic music played with the rhythm of cumbia? The birth of the tribal guarachero movement. According to Esteban Cárdenas, who authored an article and a nine-minute documentary for Vice magazine about Matehuala boots with elongated toes, tribal guarachera “is a musical [...]
Popular Street Drug Cuts Across Class Lines, Demands Social Strategies in Argentina
by Dina Gonzalez Global Press Institute Although paco, a drug derived from cocaine, has a reputation of being a lower-class drug, it has extended to affect middle-class families as well. Families of people addicted to the popular street drug are demanding more state intervention, while authorities say families must take more responsibility for their drug-addicted [...]
