Anti-Immigrant New Mexico Gov Admits Abuelos Had No Papers
Anti-Immigrant New Mexico Gov Admits Abuelos Had No Papers
So here we go, again: the staunchly anti-immigrant New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez admits that, well, her grandparents came to the U.S. without papers. So all of this anti-immigrant work […]
What’s A “Good” Immigration Policy?
By Mariana Garza What would “good” immigration policy look like? I think about immigration — the act of entering and settling in a country of which you are not a […]
Telling My Mexican Family: “Yes, I Want Kids, Just Not Now”
My grandma and aunts keep asking me when I’m going to start popping out some babies, now that I am living with my boyfriend. I’m 27 and my aunt insists […]
Mexican Novelas Are Fun, But Reinforce Negative Stereotypes
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 […]
Poll: Less Than Half Of Mexicans Say Gov’t Beating Narcos
[Editors Note: The following is a press release from the Pew Hispanic Center.] As the death toll continues to rise in Mexico’s drug war, a new survey by Pew Research Center’s Global […]
How The Spanish Caste System Is Absent From U.S. History
By Richard G. Santos I used to tell my students and now tell audiences when the occasion arises, that U. S. history is written and taught in black and white […]
My Life As The Mexican Jack Kerouac
When I was in high school, I had an unquenchable thirst for the road. I had read books by Jack London, Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson that had romanticized […]
Drag Meets Lucha Libre In San Diego’s “Exótico” Matches
The words Mexican wrestling conjure up images of masked burly men, performing acrobatic-like stunts, taking down their opponents in the most theatrical of styles while unabashedly flaunting their masculinity. Take […]
How Raúl Julia Jr Will Take On The Mexican Govt & The Mayans
Raúl Julia-Levy is a man claiming to be the illegitimate son of celebrated Latino thespian Raúl Julia, a great character actor that appeared in a couple of great movies and […]
Spanish Media Is On The Rise In The U.S., For Now
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 […]
