Category: Culture
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 [...]
Songs protesting racism is focal point of new Latino music contest
LatinaLista — Music isn’t just lyrics set to music in the Latino community. For generations, it’s also been a way to chronicle various protest movements within the history of Latinos in the United States. The most recent has been the immigration marches of 2006, and now the newly signed Arizona Senate Bill 1070 is inspiring [...]
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 [...]
Spotlight Non-profit: Giving every low-income child a chance to own their First Book
LatinaLista– “Eighty percent of preschool and after-school programs serving low-income populations have no age-appropriate books for the children they serve. Millions of children spend thousands of hours every week in programs and schools that are starving for resources necessary to improve educational quality.” This was the sad discovery, Kyle Zimmer, a corporate lawyer made one [...]
Institute of Texan Cultures’ RACE discussions aimed at talking about sensitive issues
La Prensa – San Antonio San Antonio.- Since January 2010, the Institute of Texan Cultures has challenged San Antonians and visitors alike to examine their understanding of race and racism through “RACE: Are We So Different,” a cutting-edge exhibit from the Science Museum of Minnesota and American Anthropological Association. Designed to increase the quantity [...]
Dia de los Niños celebrates the love of reading among Latino children
LatinaLista– According to the Nation’s Report Card: Reading 2009, Latino children in both 4th and 8th grades showed improvement in their reading skills. Yet, there still exists a reading score gap between White and Latino children — 230 vs. 205 — which illustrates that there is still a need for literacy to be promoted within [...]
Spotlight Non-profit: On a mission to preserve and raise awareness of Latino culture
LatinaLista — San Antonio’s Centro Cultural Aztlan has a big mission: “preserve and build upon the long tradition of Chicano/Latino culture by creating programs that would involve local artists and increase public awareness of their work.” It’s a mission they’ve been successfully fulfilling since their founding in 1977. One measure of that success has been [...]
A key to an excellent memory is how to “see” the printed word
LatinaLista Reading is a skill that most people have to some degree, but remembering what we read is an ability that not everyone is blessed with. Whether it’s a grocery list or the all-important information for an exam, memorizing is something you either can do very well or you can’t — unless you read Maximize [...]
Plain and simple language dispels the myths and fears Latinas have of taking charge of their health
LatinaLista — For too long in the medical community, it’s been believed that when it comes to meeting the health needs of women, a “one-size-fits-all approach” suffices. Though Latinas, as most women, instinctively knew that philosophy was just plain wrong, few ever challenged it as thoroughly and matter-of-factly as Dr. Jane Delgado does in her [...]
