Should National Origin Be Added To Census Forms?

Should National Origin Be Added To Census Forms?

NewsTaco April 16, 2012

I’m all for shaking up the snow globe, kicking up some dust, creating some chaos. Sure, it makes things a little messy for the moment,  but thing’s always get messy […]

Quinceañera Dress To Be Part Of Smithsonian Exhibit

NewsTaco April 13, 2012

Who would have thought it? This is the lead paragraph of an Associated Press story that ran in the Chicago Sun-Times: She was just a regular kid. Now, the dress […]

Is “Bootstrapping” the Same As Personal Responsibility?

Mary Mata April 12, 2012

By Reyna Jacqueline Peña, Gozamos In a recent blog piece, I reflected on my upbringing in Little Village and my beliefs regarding some of the factors that contribute to violence in the community. I […]

America’s War With Aliens And Their Families

Mary Mata

By  Hector Luis Alamo, Being Latino In the time it takes you to read this article, alien parents will be torn away from their children by armed men (possibly in […]

Eating Together with Chef Aaron Sanchez (meet and greet event)

Mary Mata April 11, 2012

Not everyday you wake up and head to an event in one of the most amazing places in NYC: Tribeca, to meet a celebrity chef and ask all the questions […]

What Does “Go Back To Mexico” Really Mean?

NewsTaco April 10, 2012

For the past 20 years I’ve written a weekly opinion column for the San Antonio Express-News (technically, I started writing for the San Antonio Light, but it closed not too […]

Surnames In English And Spanish: What’s In A Name?

NewsTaco April 9, 2012

By D.C. Basset To name everything, to name it all, is the endless task humankind has endeavored to accomplish since the beginning of language. Flora, fauna, activities, qualities, science, the divine, the […]

Nebraska Grapples With Unborn Undocumented Immigrants

NewsTaco April 5, 2012

Let’s see if we can help the lawmakers in the state of Nebraska figure this one out. A person is undocumented if they came to this country with no legal […]

Self Awareness Reveals Not So Subtle Stereotypes

Mary Mata

I imagine that most minorities who are self-aware have the occasional, or perhaps even perpetual, underlying fear of fulfilling racial stereotypes. It’s an anxiety that I’m still trying to unpack. […]

Latinos And Their Views Of Identity

NewsTaco April 4, 2012

(Editor’s note: This is a verbatim, just released, press release by the Pew Hispanic Center. I thought it was pertinent to make it available to the NewsTaco community. I’ll be ruminating on […]