Guest Voz articles

Guest Voz: Understanding demise of Tucson’s Mexican Americans Studies means knowing history differs from education

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: 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 [...]

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