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Hablo Y Hablas: Rete

Mary Mata January 19, 2012

You might be asking yourself, “What’s ‘rete’ mean?” The answer is, nothing necessarily in and of itself, but in conjunction with another word, it can lend itself to mean “very” […]

I Don’t Want To Be The Model Minority For The American Dream

Mary Mata January 18, 2012

Shakespeare, Mexican American Studies Books Banned In Tucson

Mary Mata January 16, 2012

When The Hobbit Took Back Aztlán: A Latino Nerd Reads Tolkien

Mary Mata January 11, 2012

By Eres Nerd Mi ‘apa is a nerd. Specifically, a history nerd, por eso, the chances that I would turn out a nerd when I was born were very high. Our […]

Bien Hecho: Eva Longoria Helps Teens With Special Needs

Mary Mata

The first time I heard about Eva’s Heroes was from Eva Longoria herself, who told the story of how growing up with a special-needs sister changed her perspective and her […]

Tucson’s Ethnic Studies Program Officially Shut Down

Mary Mata

The Tucson Unified School District’s governing board shut down the ethnic studies program —  or Mexican American studies — in a meeting Tuesday night. Only one of the five board […]

Latino Civil Rights Figures: Rubén Salazar

Mary Mata January 9, 2012

Rubén Salazar was born in 1928 in Ciudad Juárez,, Mexico. Through his journalism career in El Paso and later Los Angeles, Salazar became the first Mexican-American to cover the Chicano community […]