My Difficult And Wonderful Journey With My Mexican Mother

My relationship with my mother when I was growing was fraught with tension because of what seemed like an enormous cultural chasm. We were never like the “Gilmore Girls,” finishing each other’s […]

Now I’ve written before about how, when I’m speaking Spanish, I’m not talking about you, but what exactly are the things we talk about in Spanish in front of other […]

In college there was no doubt in my mind that I would marry a Mexican. I didn’t want my culture to be diluted. I wanted to live in a Spanish-speaking […]

Pocho used to be defined by what it wasn’t. But that was a long time ago. I bring it up as an answer to a question posed by one of […]

By Efrain Nieves Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was a Puerto Rican historian, writer, and activist in the United States who researched and raised awareness of the great contributions that Afro-Latin Americans and […]

Que desgracia que haya Latinos en este país que no hablen español. It’s a shame that there are Latinos in this country that don’t speak Spanish. I think it was […]

The first national Spanish spelling bee took place over the weekend in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Four states sent participants — Colorado, Texas, New Mexico and Oregon — and was organized […]

[Editor’s Note: The following is a press release from Horowitz Associates Market and Multicultural Research] Many U.S. Hispanics feel culturally connected to both their U.S. and Latino identities, according to […]

Recently I was picking up my dry cleaning when the attendant asked me for my name. “Sara Calderón,” I told her, trying to shorten my name a bit to make […]

The first thing that happens when you begin reading Franco Mondini-Ruiz’s book “High Pink: Texas-Mex Fairy Tales,” is that you lose yourself in the stories the artist and former attorney […]