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The Days of the Dead: A Celebration of Life
The best explanation for the Days of the Dead that I ever heard came from my friend Virgil Elizondo. In San Antonio all you have to say is Father Virgil, […]
Skinny Girls With Body Issues – Latina Edition
When my abuelita tells me, “Estás muy flaca,” I am usually pretty comfortable knowing that she’s not, exactly, on track. After all, I don’t know many abuelitas out there who […]
Moving Past Bumper Stickers: The Complexity of ‘Border Issues’
As you may or may not know, this month’s Texas Monthly magazine is billing itself the immigration issue, “Eighteen Texans tell us exactly what they think about illegal immigration.” Some […]
Bilingual Groups Forming Comunidad Across the Nation
What happens when Latinos find themselves far from home and homesick? They carve out a place like home. Case in point, Maricela Joergens in Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin. She looked around […]
The Latino College Graduation Gap: What Some Schools are Doing Right
I have a daughter that will graduate from college this year. According to a recent report she’s beaten the odds. I’m not referring to the odds that say that Latinos […]
Latina Suicide on NPR’s Latino USA
You may remember a previous article I wrote talking to Professor Luis H. Zayas about Latinas’ high suicide attempt rates, well, he was on NPR’s Latino USA to chat about […]
NewsTaco Week in Review: Machos, Telenovelas, Militares y la Política
Time to round up this week’s NewsTaco news…. It was the most racist of times when we saw how low some Republican lawmakers were willing to go with their scary […]
Another Reason to Loathe Latinos/as: They Cause Marital Strife!
By William “Memo” Nericcio Where is Myra Mendible (From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture) when you need her? Hit the image for the rest of […]
My Journey Towards Mexitarianism
Sara Inés Calderón writes of her back-and-forth battle with becoming a vegetarian and continuing to embrace her Mexican culture and home city of San Antonio, Texas.