Being a Latino student in the Heart of Dixie
By Vvictor Cuicahua, The Crimson White When I was 6 years old, I came to Alabama, a state that has struggled to ac-cept its identity and the setting in which […]
Legacy South project to study, archive a ‘Tejano genesis’
By Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News The Hispanic Heritage Center of Texas, in collaboration with Palo Alto College, Texas A&M University-San Antonio and city preservation officials, has launched a new history project […]
Oscar Hijuelos, Who Won Pulitzer for Tale of Cuban-American Life, Dies at 62
By Bruce Webber, The New York Times Oscar Hijuelos, a Cuban-American novelist who wrote about the lives of immigrants adapting to a new culture and became the first Latino to […]
You Are What You Create: 7 Brand New Latin Musical Inventions
By Jasmine Garsd, NPR/Alt.Latino In an essay about Mexican-Americans in the ’50s titled “The Pachuco and Other Extremes,” Mexican writer and Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz writes that we “distinguish […]