The Case For Arizona’s White Appreciation Day
The Case For Arizona’s White Appreciation Day
Arizona State Representative Cecil Ash proposed that Arizona create a White Appreciation Day when whites are no longer the majority in the state. Many are in awe that Ash only […]
The GOP Latino Primary Path: Downhill From Here
If there is a tendency for Latino voters to favor the Republican party, small as the tendency may be, we’ve heard it loudly in the Florida primary. From here on […]
Tucson Book Ban Is Just More Anti-Latino Rhetoric
By Richard G. Santos The State of Arizona has been foremost in anti-Mexican American legislation, ordinances and rhetoric in recent years. National boycotts and the U.S. Department of Justice and […]
Censorship In Arizona: Who’s Afraid Of An Educated Latino?
By Nicole Cipri In December, Arizona lawmakers passed the controversial bill known as HB2281, which banned ethnic studies in the Tuscon Unified School District. Last week, while students watched in stunned silence, […]
Texas Group Aims To “Smuggle” Latino Literature Back Into AZ
The video shows a man hanging out in front of the trunk of a car filled with books you may recognize, books about Latinos, books written by Latinos. He says […]
Tucson Students Walk Out Over Mexican American Studies Ban
High school students in Tucson, Arizona walked out of their classrooms Monday in protest over the ban on Mexican American studies in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) recently. NewsTaco […]
NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: January 16-21, 2012
This week we had a nice mix of stories running the gamut from the American Dream to great books to banned books to sexual abuse to the Internet to voting […]
Thanks To Arizona For Making Latinos Invisible In History
Periodically there is a rattling of cages over failures to include a genuine representation of Latinos in U.S. history textbooks and classrooms. The Texas Board of Education has been consistently accused […]
South Carolina’s Immigration Law Challenges The Constitution
By Christopher Rangel South Carolina ranked number one in Latino growth for the 2000-2010 decade with a growth rate of 148%, at the same time that legislators followed Arizona’s footsteps with one […]
Anti-Latino Politics In AZ Spurs New Political Leadership
The anti-Latino political environment that has characterized Arizona’s state politics for the past several years is beginning to have it unintended consequence: empowering Latinos in that state to run for […]
