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From Sand Creek to Sandy Hook
Forgotten history, violence, and the state of exceptionThe mass murder of innocents did not start at Sandy Hook, it started at places like Sand CreekBy Devon G. PeñaThis past week, the airwaves were...
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New Mexico’s Centennial : Celebrate, Ignore or Condemn?
New Mexico’s CentennialCelebrate, Ignore or Condemn?By Richard Griego and Ezequiel Antonio LópezPart 1: Colonialism and Land OwnershipNew Mexico is celebrating its centennial as a state of the United...
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“My name is Francisco Diego Rodriguez in full”
Extracts from To Be Frank Diego, a novelBy Dominic CarrilloFrom Chapter 1My name is Francisco. It’s Francisco Diego Rodriguez in full, but that was cut down to “Frank” a long time ago. The shortening...
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Firefight inside Viet Nam’s grass walls
Extract from: Can Tho: A story of love and war, a novelBy Ignacio M. GarcíaChapter 1The helicopter rode the top of the forest like a surfer over the California waves. There was a small incision in the...
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Growing Up in “The Bottoms” of Topeka, Kansas
Extracts from the memoir, The Bottoms: A Place We Once Called HomeThis memoir is filled with pictures and nostalgia, reflective of barrios everywhere and wherever Mexican families looking for work...
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When a peaceful march against war turned into urban warfare
Pictured on the cover is Danny Rodriguez, a captain of the original Brown BeretsExtract from Tiempo Robado, a memoir of the Chicano MoratoriumBy Agustin CebadaChapter 1: A police riot was taking place...
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Answers for what has to be done in America?
Global Capitalist Crisis and the Second Great Depression: Egalitarian Systemic Models for Change: author, Armando NavarroReview by Jose Angel GutierrezFor years Armando Navarro has produced quality...
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The Unforgotten Memories - Review of Songs from the Barrio
Review of Songs from the Barrio: A Coming of Age in Modesto, California: author, Richard RíosBy Rosa Martha VillarrealExtracts follow the review. Editor’s note.Richard Ríos’s Songs from the Barrio: A...
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Culturacide: A Chicana Latina Photo-critique of “Snapshots”
By María DeGuzmánFrom María Amparo Ruiz de Burton in her 1872 novel, Who Would Have Thought It?, and her 1885 novel, The Squatter and the Don, to Melinda Palacio in her 2011 novel Ocotillo Dreams,...
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The Word: Weapon of Choice
Felipe de Ortego y GascaBy Felipe de Ortego y GascaI believe in the power of the word as the ultimate weapon of choice. There is, indeed, no power greater than the power of language, the medium that...
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Waking to the Reality of the “American Dream”
By Rodolfo F. AcuñaThe National Committee for Protection of Foreign Born Workers was established in 1923 in reaction to the virulent xenophobia of a Republican Congress and President toward immigrant...
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Two Up to Earth Poems
Extracts from Up to Earth : An Ecopoesy Chapbook"Nature's Introspection"by Edel RomayBy Armando RendónDay’s TrilogyThe morning calmsIn the trough below,the darkness of night holdsfor a few moments...
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The question U.S. Latina/o Scholars must help answer: What kind of América we...
By Arturo MadridNote:This Keynote Address was delivered at the 20th Anniversary of The Biennial Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association, University of Albany, Albany, NY, October 25, 2012....
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Toward Education That Advances Democracy
By José Zapata CalderonWith the growth of a global economy, there is the need for a type ofeducational system that promotes civic engagement as a means of buildingnew models toward a democratic...
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Voz de los inmigrantes: José Antonio Vargas
Por Raúl Caballero GarcíaJosé Antonio VargasEn uno de sus recientes boletines, America’s Voice, una organización “dedicada a velar por los derechos civiles de los inmigrantes y sus familias”,...
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Three Ultimas: The Book, The Play and The Movie
By Felipe de Ortego y GascaNote to the Reader: With so much publicity about the release of the movie, Bless me, Ultima, this week, we bring together three pieces Professor Ortego has written about the...
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Loving My Life
By Nancy De Los Santos RezaExtract from 8 Ways to Say “I Love My Life!: multiple authorsIf you don’t do anything, nothing will happen.College was never a choice offered me, and I knew my family’s...
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Proposition 8’s definition of marriage contradicts the reality of sex and gender
By Maria NietoAs a biologist I have found the arguments against same-sex marriage misguided. Not because of the evidence, albeit inconclusive, which hints at same-sex attraction as being based, at...
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Lawyer of La Raza: Alonso S. Perales
TheRuleofLawandtheDevelopmentof Mexican-AmericanPublicIntellectualsExtract from the book, In Defense of My People: author,...
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Is there a Mexican America in Our Future
Extract from Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century: author, José Angel HernándezRelationship between Mexico and Its Diaspora: Postwar Mexican American Colonization during the...
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