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For Latino And Black Americans, A Glass Mysteriously Half-Full

Mary Mata March 6, 2014

By Gene Demby, NPR Code Switch Over the last few years an unusual phenomenon has kept popping up in public opinion surveys: Blacks and Latinos have become much more sanguine […]

What it means to me to be a Latino writer

Mary Mata March 5, 2014

Professor, 87, working on ‘Chicano Renaissance’

Mary Mata March 3, 2014

The Beatles Song “Back in the USSR” Connects Hispanic and Ex-Soviet Artists

Mary Mata February 26, 2014

By Penka Skachkova ,Huffington Post When Darin Reyes, a 21-year-old graphic designer and artist in Los Angeles, learned that Carter Sexton in Valley Village, California was going to do a show celebrating […]

Telling Latino stories ‘way too long untold’

Mary Mata

By Francisco Vara-Orta, San Antonio Express News SAN ANTONIO — For the story of America to be fully told, the history of Latinos in the United States and the landmarks […]

Do Chicanos Have an Inferiority Complex?

Mary Mata February 24, 2014

By Ilan Stavans, The Chronicle of Higher Education  The etymology of Chicano is surrounded in mystery. I’ve seen its roots traced to Nahuatl, specifically to the term Mexica,as the people encountered by Hernán […]

You Are The Worst Latino

Mary Mata February 21, 2014

By Maria Hinojosa, Latino USA We’ve all had that experience of feeling like the worst Latino in the room, if not on the planet. Senior producer A.C. Valdez talks with […]