By Gilda Pedraza Latino Connection “Mommy, they marked I am White on my exam… Is that OK? I am sorry, I did not know what to mark and the teacher just did it for me” “Color canela, café…
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Guest Voz: “You’re not really Mexican” – a personal essay about my cultural identity crisis
Oct 28, 2015, 11:10 AM 0
By Sophia Campos VoiceBox Media All my life I’ve lived between two worlds. As a Mexican-American, it’s easy to be confused as to which world you think you should identify with more; I feel undoubtedly Mexican-American when I make…
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Video: Visiting Mexico brings unexpected truths to DREAMers searching for identity and country
Aug 11, 2015, 4:30 PM 0
LatinaLista — Undocumented students, otherwise known as DREAMers, have been signing petitions, staging hunger strikes, marches, rallies and risking arrest for several years now. They risk exposing their legal status in the United States for one common goal —…
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Book Review: Exposing the complex concept of masculine identity in Mexico’s Sonoran mountain region
Jul 16, 2015, 3:22 PM 0
By Sarah Dalen LatinaLista It starts with a photograph. Two men pose for a portrait, lightly, but affectionately, holding hands. The pose might not seem extraordinary today, but this photo, taken around 1935 in Douglas, Arizona, features two Sonoran…
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Crowdfunder: Changing the Latino Image — One Story at a Time
Jun 23, 2015, 11:42 AM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Help Change the Latino Image — One Story at a Time Latinos are too often highlighted in the mainstream media as ‘illegal’ OR are typecast as cliche’ stereotypes like gardeners, maids, and gangsters. So, several screenwriters…
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Video: Latina author searches for the root of “Hispanic” vs “Latino” identity
Jun 12, 2014, 12:00 AM 0
LatinaLista — Mexican American author and UC Berkeley sociologist G. Cristina Mora never realized the diversity of “Hispanics” until she moved out of her Los Angeles neighborhood, where 100 percent of her neighbors were families who could trace their…
By Nancy Landa Mundo Citizen ‘Where are you from?’ That is a simple question, isn’t it? Well for some of us, the answer is not so straight forward. My experience in London in the past four months has included…
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Viernes Video: Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal delves into U.S. immigration issue in search of “Dayani Cristal”
Mar 28, 2014, 12:00 AM 0
LatinaLista — Perhaps the most chilling consequence of illegal entrance into the country is the deaths of so many migrants in the deserts, mountains and rivers that act as a natural barricade to reaching the United States. Stories have…
Local News, Northeast, zNew Headline
Black and Latino: The Challenges of Dual Identities
Dec 16, 2013, 9:11 AM 0
By Wayne Jebian MassLatinoNews In the 1950s, legendary baseball player Roberto Clemente had to confront racist attitudes both inside and outside the locker room after coming to the United States from Puerto Rico. It was a stigma that he…
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Video: Cyber-visitors get sneak peek at new Latino art exhibit opening at Smithsonian American Art Museum
Sep 26, 2013, 3:15 PM 0
LatinaLista — For all the talk — and debate — over the Latino/Hispanic identity, a question that begs to be asked is: When did the concept of a collective Latino identity emerge? It’s a question answered in the newest…
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Guest Voz: Defining Chicano identity means knowing the Mexican past within the context of U.S. history
Aug 13, 2013, 12:00 AM 0
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista For the past forty plus years, the question of Chicana/ identity has evoked passionate discussion. It got one of my favorite Chicano scholars, the late Dr. Ramón Ruiz, into hot water. Don Ramón, for…
Culture
Majority of young Latino adults are “proud of their Hispanic/Latino culture”
Jan 23, 2013, 12:03 PM 0
By Insight Tr3s A Pew nationwide survey finds that Hispanic identity continues to be most rooted in family country of origin while the terms Latino and Hispanic are not as top of mind. The United States government uses the…
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Video: Cuban-American filmmaker creates ‘visual conversation’ in award-winning video art short
Jan 10, 2013, 3:48 PM 0
LatinaLista — The topic of ‘identity’ is a popular one in literature and film. A new documentary that explores the age-old issue combines poetry and film to produce a piece that is already garnering many kudos and distinctions. SHIFT,…
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Video: The futility of separating Latino identity from Latino culture
Aug 28, 2012, 3:21 PM 2
LatinaLista — “Being Hispanic is cool.” It’s the heart of the message that Glenn Llopis, founder of the Center for Hispanic Leadership, shares in his first episode from the new web series, “Lessons From My Father,” created in partnership…
