Latino Politics Is Not Separate From American Politics

First things first: Latino politics is American politics. It isn’t a particular flavor of American politics, a separate segment of American politics or a special interest of American politics. It […]

I haven’t decided who’s more tragic, the people who thought-up and got to work on the plan to raise donations to build a fence along the border between Arizona and […]

There’s a lot of navel-gazing going on about the birth rate among Mexican-Americans. Ever since the Pew Hispanic Center released it’s study that says that, for the first time ever and […]

The problem with putting a price on politics is that you put a price on politics – it’s a doomed idea by definition. Case in point: the GOP says it will spend […]

So there was no boycott after all, no commerce-affecting protest, no fan movement, no player statement (at least none that pierced the media bubble). The 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star […]

Pocho used to be defined by what it wasn’t. But that was a long time ago. I bring it up as an answer to a question posed by one of […]

The fact that the Mexican immigration spigot has gone almost dry is a game changer. It’ll have consequences in the U.S., but we have no idea how it’s going to […]

Que desgracia que haya Latinos en este país que no hablen español. It’s a shame that there are Latinos in this country that don’t speak Spanish. I think it was […]

One of the subtle lies held about Latinos in the U.S. is that we’re not invested in this country, in the love-it-or-leave-it sense. To put it another way, Latinos, the […]

OK wait. Here we are, going on about immigration in this country and the very folks we’re getting rowdy about have moved on? Really? We’re arguing about anti-immigrant laws, about […]