Category: History
Latino groups gear up for final battle with TX State Board of Education
LatinaLista – On the heels of Arizona abolishing ethnic studies curriculum for their students, the final phase of the next most controversial action against ethnic contributions to state and national history is about to take place. On Wednesday, May 19, numerous representatives of the Latino community will give testimony in Austin, Texas as to why the Social [...]
Guest Voz: Study finds certain college texts largely ignore Latino contributions
By Drs. Jessica Lavariega-Monforti & Adam McGlynn LatinaLista — On May 11, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law a bill targeting the teaching of ethnic studies. Under the new law, any school district will lose ten percent of its state financing if it offers classes “designed for students of a particular ethnic group, advocates [...]
Tucson students to create human chain in protest of bill that does away ethnic studies
LatinaLista — The furor over the signing of Arizona SB 1070 that allows for the citizenship status of all Latinos to be questioned by the state’s police has overshadowed an equally disturbing bill that Arizona Gov. Brewer may be on the verge of signing — HB 2281. HB 2281 cuts off funding for schools K-12 [...]
New campaign asks GOOGLE to doodle Cinco de Mayo
LatinaLista — Who doesn’t like it when the “GOOGLE’s CHIEF DOODLER” gets inventive and incorporates the site’s logo with a historical person’s birthday, event or cultural tradition? In the past ten years since the site first began doodling its logo, GOOGLE has doodled in honor of such notable people/events as Martin Luther King, Jr., the [...]
Peru: Holy Week in Peru — a time for religion and recreation
By Isabel Guerra LatinaLista Peru, a country that has been through 300 years of Spanish Viceroyalty, is still, despite the advances of other religions and cults, a Catholic country. Spanish conquistadores set foot on current Peru’s territories in 1532, and imposed Catholicism by force on the native Peruvians, who adopted the Catholic rituals and even [...]
Guest Voz: Sec. of Labor Solis recognizes Cesar Chavez as a Latino Green Movement pioneer
LatinaLista — In remembering the birthday of Cesar Chavez, one of the most famous Latino civil rights activists of the 20th Century, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis reveals in her blog post the role Chavez played as an environmentalist — the forerunner to the Green Movement. As Secretary Solis points out, Chavez’s vision of the [...]
Interactive site makes Cesar Chavez come alive for a new generation
LatinaLista — March 31 is Cesar Chavez’s birthday. He would have been 83 years old. If there is one organization that has come to personify Cesar Chavez, it is the one that he helped found, lead and which still carries his legacy — United Farm Workers (UFW). Understanding social media better and knowing that the [...]
Latinos and blacks should be offended and angry over TX State Board of Education’s decision to dismiss minority contributions from school textbooks
LatinaLista — Democracy is a dying U.S. ideal — thanks to the Texas State Board of Education (TSBE). In a vote of 10-5, the board, dominated by social conservatives, preliminarily adopted a new Social Studies and history curriculum that includes replacing the word “democratic” in referring to the form of U.S. government and opting instead [...]
Mexico strives to live down cartel violence with global Independence celebration
LatinaLista — With all that is happening in Mexico these days, even the drug cartels can’t deter the country from celebrating the 200th anniversary of Mexican Independence. In fact, Mexico is proceeding with a national celebration that aims to be global in nature. Mexico…One Country, All Nations is the theme for a September blow-out party [...]
Chile preserves its tortured past in new museum dedicated to country’s victims of human rights abuses
By Pamela Morales LatinaLista SANTIAGO, CHILE — Some 20 people stood silently in a small, black-walled room staring at a dozen television monitors playing testimonials from torture victims. One woman remembering bleeding from her nose, ears, mouth, vagina and thinking she would die. Another recalling she, her mother and sister were all tortured in the [...]
