racism
Is Arizona Racially Profiling Latinos To Deny Them Civil Rights?
Arizona political leaders seem to be targeting Latinos to prevent them from exercising their civil rights by banning them from the state Capitol. Two things immediately pop into my head […]
Call Me Anything But Mexican
“You don’t look Mexican” is something I hear a lot. I hear it from whites, African-Americans, Asians, Mexican nationals, Latinos from Latin America, just about everyone. Of course, in polite […]
Book Explores History Of Black Latinos In The U.S.
An interesting new book has been released just in time for Black History Month: The Afro-Latin@ Reader edited by Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores. Here’s the book blurb from […]
Where’s All The Color In Silicon Valley, Tech?
In an absolutely brilliant post titled “Startup America Should Look Like America” by Kalimah Priforce the brazen lack of anyone of color in Silicon Valley and tech startups is throughly […]
Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz Spoofs Egypt’s Mubarak
Chicano cartoonist and satirist Lalo Alcaraz released a spoof on Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak today. He combined the recent revelation that “conservative” New York Congressman Christopher Lee sent quasi-nude photos […]
How To Respond To Anti-Latino Racists
[Editor’s Note: This is the first of periodic re-posts from the blog Pa’lante Latino. The following was authored by Christina Saenz & Albert Downing.] Have you ever needed the best […]
Stereotypes: Latinas Tested For Chlamydia More Than Whites
From the “there’s no such thing as racism why do you have to make everything about race” school of thought, a report that Latinas and African-American women are much more […]
KKK Leader Not Liable For Assault On Latino Teen
A KKK leader in Kentucky seems to have gotten away with inciting his members to violence, but since he wasn’t there when the men kicked then-16 year-old Jordan Gruver repeatedly […]
En Torno a La Propuesta de Ley HB 505: ¡César Chávez Presente!
[Editor’s Note: The following is a commentary from Professor Roberto R. Calderón, Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. We wrote about the proposal to […]
Drug Sniffing Dogs Often Wrong, Harass Latinos
Just when you thought we had entered post-racial America, even dogs begin to show signs of racism. Yes, that’s right, in a recent analysis done by the Chicago Tribune, it […]