By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista When anything titled a “white paper” comes across my email, I usually ignore it. Why is truth always called “white”? Why not brown, yellow or black? Is it because black is considered negative, i.e., Black Friday, black as sin, Halloween, or death whereas white is the color of god and [...]
Guest Voz: Anti-Latino Laws Ignite The South
By Lamont Lilly LatinaLista In its original format, Alabama’s Beason-Hammon Act granted school resource officers the right to badger 5th graders on the basis of their immigration status. The state of Alabama, which passed the Beason-Hammon Act (or HB 56) in June of 2011, was the only state in the country requiring public school administrators [...]
Guest Voz: No más costly phone calls — Standing up to predatory rates charged to families of Latino inmates
By Amalia Deloney The Center for Media Justice Yesterday, Alex Nogales, President & CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC), delivered the keynote address at the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) annual Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration (sic) in Washington, DC. The event included a welcome by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and introductory remarks by former [...]
Guest Voz: What’s happening in Chicana/o Studies is a microcosm of what’s happening in society
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista Writing books and writing blogs are similar.They should be truth. If they were not, the author loses credibility and his/her ability to convince suffers. This is how it should be. But Arizona is testing this rule of thumb. The assault on the truth in Arizona makes it impossible for those [...]
Guest Voz: The problem with debate over the ‘i’ word is that it needs more perspective(s)
Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The debate over the usage of “illegal immigrant” versus “undocumented or unauthorized immigrant” is heating up all over again thanks to one of the most prominent undocumented immigrants in the country — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas. Philippines-born Vargas made headlines recently when he spoke in front of media professionals who [...]
Guest Voz: Is Chicago Becoming America’s Ciudad Juárez?
By Sylvia Longmire Mexico’s Drug War “At least seven people…have been killed and 24 others wounded in a string of shootings in the US city of Chicago in the past two days.” This was one very stark headline the morning of August 26, 2012. The attacks occurred in different parts of the city, with several [...]
