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Racial Segregation And Latino Film Stereotypes

Mary Mata January 12, 2011

An interesting interview appeared in A Latino Point of View in Today’s World this week about why and how Latinos and Latinas were stereotyped in early Hollywood films. By “early” […]

VIDEO: Making Delicious Vegetarian Pupusas

Mary Mata January 10, 2011

Latino/Gay Credited with Saving Rep. Gifford’s Life

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Happy Friday From Chente!

Mary Mata January 7, 2011

Man, when you hear Chente sing like this, I think even my abuelita gets excited! (Incidentally, she does have a photo with him from like the 70s or something and […]

Drug Sniffing Dogs Often Wrong, Harass Latinos

Mary Mata January 6, 2011

Just when you thought we had entered post-racial America, even dogs begin to show signs of racism. Yes, that’s right, in a recent analysis done by the Chicago Tribune, it […]

Dia de Reyes, Feast of the Aha!

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Televisa, Mexico’s behemoth broadcasting company, had live helicopter-view images of the Tepito marked in Mexico City last night, at midnight. Hundreds of thousands of people packed block after block of […]

NYT: Whites are Arbiters of Culture

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This may seem like hanky-using, protruding-pinky-finger kinda’ stuff, but it’s bothering some people. A recent New York Times Book Review, in a collection of essays called “Why Criticism Matters,” extolled […]