Bien Hecho: Carlos Guerra’s Scholarship For 1st-Generation College Students

Some people are so larger-than-life that when it’s time to talk about them, you feel speechless. That’s how I feel now writing this post about our late colleague, Carlos Guerra. […]

by Melissa del Bosque from the Texas Observer where this article was first posted. The United States has become awfully hostile to immigrants crossing its southern border in recent years—unless […]

We pick up where we left off. UC Berkeley Professor David Montejano sat with NewsTaco to chat about his new book “Quixote’s Soldier’s– A Local History of the Chicano Movement, […]

There is little known about the origin of the national Chicano movement – where it started, how it started, what brought about the discontent that resulted in the creation of […]

Today it’s Texas’ turn. The release of the Census numbers for the state of Texas are expected this afternoon but it’s really an exercise of formality. We know the outcome, […]

by David Montejano from the Texas Observer, where this story was first published. My two major works—Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1936-1986 and its sequel, Quixote’s Soldiers: […]

Wondering why Latinos don’t vote as much as we’d like? We could lose time and our sense of place going ’round all the excuses, reasons and definitions.  It’s been discussed, […]

The Houston Chronicle posted a very good piece about the infamous virtual fence along the US-Mexico border. The fence is at the heart of many political issues and mine fields, […]

The University of Texas will not have to change its admissions policy, this according to the 5th Circuit US Court of Appeals. Two students, Abigail Fisher and Rachel Michalewicz, had sued […]

My family is from South Texas, the border, but I grew up in L.A. I remember really clearly growing up how strange all my cousins seemed to me when I’d […]