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 […]

A recent report from the Colorado Latino Leadership, Advocacy & Research Organization (CLARO) entitled “Snapshot of Colorado Latinos,” shows that in several realms Latinos in that state lagged behind others. […]

You might be asking yourself, “What’s ‘rete’ mean?” The answer is, nothing necessarily in and of itself, but in conjunction with another word, it can lend itself to mean “very” […]

I’m tired of having to explain to white folks that many people in my working class Mexican community cannot persevere no matter how hard they may try. I’m often met […]

Rudolfo Anaya’s celebrated work and seminal novel “Bless Me Última” just turned 40 this year. The book was first published  in 1972, and was groundbreaking in its portrayal of Latinos, and […]

By Salomón Baldenegro Tucson, Arizona — First, let’s get the media-driven nonsense out of the way: “ethnic studies” was not dismantled in the Tucson Unified School District. Mexican American Studies […]

By Eres Nerd Mi ‘apa is a nerd. Specifically, a history nerd, por eso, the chances that I would turn out a nerd when I was born were very high. Our […]

The first time I heard about Eva’s Heroes was from Eva Longoria herself, who told the story of how growing up with a special-needs sister changed her perspective and her […]

The Tucson Unified School District’s governing board shut down the ethnic studies program —  or Mexican American studies — in a meeting Tuesday night. Only one of the five board […]

Have you ever heard the word, “suave?” The word is used to mean “smooth” in a variety of contexts, but the usage I wanted to highlight this evening is that […]