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Remembering a Modest Cesar Chavez

NewsTaco April 10, 2014

*Anita Quintanilla was Cesar Chavez’s first female bodyguard, a fact I learned through a Facebook exchange during the recent days of the premiere of the Chavez bio-pic. Two things stand […]

Don’t Be Fooled: Latino = Indigenous

NewsTaco April 7, 2014

Seventy Years Later: The Zoot Suit Riots and the Complexity of Youth Culture

NewsTaco April 2, 2014

This Is Not a Cesar Chavez Movie Review

NewsTaco March 31, 2014

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco I’m an avid film fan. I’ll watch a movie every weekend – I like them that much. But that doesn’t make me a critic, or a […]

‘Microaggressions’ are proof of a flawed society

NewsTaco March 27, 2014

*This is the latest in a growing number of articles, posts, about “microagressions.” If you’ve been on the bitten end of one, you know what they are. I once had […]

What the Heck is “Latino” Lipstick?

NewsTaco

*Agreed. What the heck is that? I’m not drawn to lipstick stories, but this one is about more than cosmetics. Naming a lipstick “Latino” drips with assumptions. Read the piece. […]

Being Latino Is Not a Crutch

Mary Mata March 19, 2014

By César Vargas , Huffington Post Latino Voices I’ll tell you what happens to a person of color once he/she “makes it.” They fall victims to the myth of meritocracy. Once they’re knighted kings and […]