babies
No Babies, I’ll Take A Master’s Please
If you’re a Latina and your family is anything like mine, people have been expecting you to be married (to a man) for a really long time. And, since you […]
Latinas Like Makin’ the Babies
A recent Census report confirms what my tÃas have been telling me for years: Â These really ARE childbearing hips! The report, “Fertility of American Women: Â 2008,” details female fertility in […]
Trump DACA Decision Aimed at Fear of a Brown Electorate
When Donald Trump swanned down the escalator at Trump Tower in June 2015 and announced he was running for president, he said he felt called to duty in order to […]
How Anti-Latino Rhetoric Hurts All Americans
By Belinda Campos and Leo R. Chavez, Greater Good Magazine (10.5-minute read) We all want to be valued members of the groups to which we belong. For Latinos in the United […]
Eugenics in the Trump Era
*To understand eugenics is to understand some of the motivation in the Trump White House. It cloaks raw bigotry in scientific terms and fills public discussions with dog-whistle racism. Please, […]
Latino Grandparents as Parents—on Diaper Duty Again
*Why you should read this: Because this is important. Because abuelos raising nietos is a real concern. Because these statistics say a lot about Latino culture: “of the children in california […]
Infants show apparent awareness of ethnic differences, UCLA psychologists report
*Here’s something to wrap your mind around on a Wednesday. I think babies detect differences, but the authors of the study and the article are the ones who imposed ethnicity […]
Google Searches for Voter Registration Have Surged in Hispanic Area
*It’s called the Alicia Machado effect. When the Trump/Miss Universe shaming story broke, U.S. Latinos lit Google with voter registration queries. VL By Nate Cohn, The New York Times In […]
How Donald Trump is bruising Texas (and the Democrats are happy)
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco In Texas we’re waiting for the state to turn from red to purple, like a bruise. Both the hopeful and the weary know that the Republican […]
the Latino daily – Your Friday morning brief
José Landaverde, an Anglican Catholic priest and community activist, has begun a protest walk that will take him from his from his Guadalupe Church parish in Chicago’s Little Village to […]