Latina Documentary Filmmaker Works For Social Justice

Latina Documentary Filmmaker Works For Social Justice

Mary Mata October 4, 2011

Laura Varela said that it was her experience growing up in a violent neighborhood that ultimately led her to work as a documentary filmmaker. Her journey from El Paso, Texas […]

NewsTaco’s Birthday Week Begins

Mary Mata October 3, 2011

You may have read Victor Landa’s story earlier today in which he wrote about the long road of NewsTaco’s one-year birthday next week, October 10. We’ll be engaging in shameless […]

Feliz Cumpleaños NewsTaco

NewsTaco

The most exhilarating and terrifying thing about doing something like NewsTaco is that there are no instructions. It wouldn’t have mattered because we’re not the type to read instructions — […]

Cultural Competency, New Media Vital To Young Latino Success

Mary Mata September 28, 2011

Every year I endeavor to advance the capabilities of a strategic sector of undergraduate students by providing leadership training, exposure to new Latino-based research findings and a multidimensional model for […]

Latinos Are The New Mainstream, Especially In Ads

Mary Mata September 22, 2011

If you didn’t know it before, you can certainly start to see it now, and that’s the fact that Latinos are increasingly becoming mainstream. It’s apparent in the ways that […]

Tackling Latinos In Popular Culture

Mary Mata September 21, 2011

Professor William Anthony Nericcio, aka “Memo,” is the Director of San Diego State University’s ever-evolving MALAS program, Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences. He also serves on the […]

WANTED: A Latino Al Sharpton (Mullet Preferred)

Mary Mata September 8, 2011

As official Latino spokesperson (via unanimous election), many people presume that El Guapo would readily add the role of “Latino Sharpton” to his resumé – a dapper man, with great […]

Mexican Novelas Are Fun, But Reinforce Negative Stereotypes

Mary Mata September 7, 2011

 By Wuicho Vargas Mexico is awesome, I will never deny that fact, but one thing that’s particularly Mexican to me is the fact that we like novelas. We love the awesome […]

When The Remote Control Determines Who’s In Charge

Mary Mata September 6, 2011

This morning my son Conor watched TV from the breakfast room as he ate waffles and fresh strawberries for breakfast. He decides that he doesn’t like the great wisdom Spongebob is […]

Spanish Media Is On The Rise In The U.S., For Now

NewsTaco August 30, 2011

This has been a good year for Hispanic media – and by that I mean Spanish language media in general, which industry and academia insists on calling “Hispanic.” Univisión, the leader of […]