2 de Julio, 2008

Big Love For Jessica

Categorized under Cultura , Raza | Tags: brown pride, Change, Chicanas, hope, Jessica Alba, Latino, Mestizaje, Mixed Race, Que Viva Las Mujeres

I'VE WRITTEN BEFORE OF JESSICA ALBA and I've been annoyed by her statements, and sorry for them, and at the same time, completely understanding of them. And of her feelings here in this culture, being of "mixed race" and struggling with xican@ identity. I'm so happy to hear where...

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25 de Mayo, 2008

My Neck of the Woods

Categorized under Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Guerra , Historia , Latin America , Race for '08 | Tags: candidates, Colonization, elections, Empire, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Post Colonialism, Puerto Rico

As you might have heard, two presidential candidates decided to visit the little island of Puerto Rico this Memorial Day weekend. They took in the sights:...

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7 de Mayo, 2008

Symbol and Essence: Part 4.5

Categorized under Blogando , Comida , Cultura , Historia , Medios | Tags: blogs, Cinco de Mayo, MainStreet.com

GRACIAS to Jessica Wakeman, who interviewed me yesterday for her Cinco de Mayo article at mainstreet.com. Thanks, Jessica, for doing just what you promised by putting some focus on certain points I hoped to stress. Even if that geography wasn't originally in your plan. What? My tacky chile pepper...

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5 de Mayo, 2008

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Categorized under Comida , Cultura , Música , Raza , día festivo | Tags: borders, Cheech and Chong, Chicanos, Film, lowriders, Mexicans, Mexico, migra, music, Obama, War, YouTube

MIS AMIGOS! It's a sunny day, we're alive in a moment many others have not lived to see, and still we refuse to be ruled by fear and misdirection and by those who would control us and keep us mired in an occupation of the mind, soul, and belief...

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1 de Mayo, 2008

Carne Asada is Not a Crime!

Categorized under Acción , Comida , Cultura , Raza , día festivo | Tags: Califas, May Day, Tacos

OYE, lovers of Carne Asada and other related deliciousness! The Great Endangered Taco Truck is not just an issue in Jefferson Parish, New Orleans! As la buena gente at saveourtacotrucks.org/ reminds us, Carne Asada is Not a Crime! As mentioned in The Los Angeles Times, to celebrate this year’s...

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Marching Side by Side

Categorized under Cultura , Derechos Humanos , Raza , día festivo | Tags: African Americans, Amigos and Amigas, Blacks, Califas, Latino, May Day, Power to the People

HAPPY MAY DAY. And may the day resonate with the energy of our collective hopes and la lucha that can not end until justice is felt in the heart and the lives of all those who need to be so recognized. The USA teaches us many myths: the Hero Myth,...

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29 de Abril, 2008

A Proper Context

Categorized under Cultura , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Política México | Tags: Format, historia, Latino, Mexico

MEXCELLENT. AUSTIN, Texas — The School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin is offering an online course for working journalists on how to incorporate the voices and views of their communities' Latinos into their reporting. The four-week course, "Covering the Latino Community," will teach journalists across Texas...

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31 de Marzo, 2008

Cesar Chavez Day?

Categorized under Comida , Cultura , Raza , día festivo | Tags: Chavez, Farming, Mexicans, Migrant farmers, Obama, Power to the People, UFW

¡FELIZ CUMPLEANOS, Señor Chavez! Or...Salud! It's been a while since you've been gone. Your work and deeds and purpose and name carry on. As farmworkers and laborers across America continue to struggle for fair treatment and fair wages, we find strength in what Cesar Chavez accomplished so many years...

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27 de Marzo, 2008

Brown Barbie Power!

Categorized under Cultura , Foto , Medios | Tags: I should tag this something, Race in Media

SOMEONE CALL BUCHANAN BARBIE!!! Because judging by a trip to the local Big Lots! store, the white Barbie Doll population is being overrun by teeming hordes of darkie dolls!!!! It was actually pretty cool to see. Things have changed a lot since the days I played with Barbies. Wait,...

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24 de Marzo, 2008

Bethesda and Oaxaca [The White Lens 8.5]

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Foto , Historia , La Lente Blanca , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, Format, iPhone, Mestizaje, Mexico, MTV, Oaxaca, Obama, Oregon, race, racism

AND NOW A STEAMING MUG OF COFFEE and a big wave from Nezua and all others in la casa—and by the way, big thanks to my weekend warriors, those that showed up and bloggedeth, adding their stones to the scale, daring to brave a hungry and discerning readership that...

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22 de Marzo, 2008

I was in the room when....

Categorized under Aprender , Character Study , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Gobierno , Guest Blogando , Historia , Invitados , La Lente Blanca , Política Estados Unidos , Preguntas , Race for '08 , Rafael , Raza , Religión , Stories , Terrorizing la Gente , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: consequences, Obama, pastor, race, religion, truth

I was in the room when... a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic...

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21 de Marzo, 2008

La Misma Luna [The Same Moon]

Categorized under Cultura , Raza | Tags: ALIENZ, Film, Immigration, Mexicans, Mexico

MAYBE AS MORE PEOPLE who are concerned with the inhumanity shown to migrants and the deeply-entrenched iniquities in place that perpetuate the harm being done to raza, to families, and to the economy and well-being of our nation as well as Mexico's get into positions of media making, the heavily...

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7 de Marzo, 2008

MALVERDE - La Marcha

Categorized under Artivism , Cultura , Frontera , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: borders, HR4437, Immigration, Latino, MALVERDE, May Day, Mexicans, Mexico, music, YouTube

I KNOW you been bumpin' this. For when gente feel like they've had enough Flamenco for the evening. Some rhythm and flow from Mexican American Hip Hop artist Malverde....

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5 de Marzo, 2008

that's why we use an X

Categorized under Cultura , Poesía , Raza | Tags: Chicanas, Chicanos

xicano means beautiful despised children of tomorrow dodging wire forged by yesterday's lie to me xicano is a name for orphan a child abandoned by tradition, tribe, and history a nimble heart running barefoot along the bloodied lips of the land kicking up wind and rain scoop of sweet corn...

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22 de Febrero, 2008

Eres Para Mi

Categorized under Cultura , Música | Tags: español, Language, music, YouTube

Enjoy the weekend, vat@s!...

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21 de Febrero, 2008

Microsoft, the Anti-Hispanic (Mexican) Company!

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Medios | Tags: Language, Microsoft, putos, QuieroLatino

THIS LINK was sent to me by the people at quierolatino.com. Can't say I was surprised. But I was annoyed. When we started developing QuieroLatino.com as the exclusive online dating site for Latinos in the US, we created a website primarily in English but with Spanish terms and phrases incorporate...

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Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home

Categorized under Comida , Corazón , Cultura , Literatura , Parenting | Tags: Adoption, Authors, Comida, Kim Sunée

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL STORY, full of poignant struggle, sensuality, sorrow, happiness, and food. In 1973, when she was 3, her mother abandoned her in a crowded South Korean market swirling in gray mist and banana flowers. “Although memories are distorted,” she writes, “there are true sensations one doesn’t forget,...

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20 de Febrero, 2008

Teatro Izcalli (San Diego)

Categorized under Cultura , Humor , Raza | Tags: Chicanas, Chicanos, Comedy, San Diego

DO YOU LOVE COMEDY and live near San Diego? Check behind the cut for a Chican@ comedy troupe coming to town....

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17 de Febrero, 2008

Essential Cream of Frida?

Categorized under Arte , Corazón , Cultura , Latin America , Raza | Tags: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Mexico, Que Viva Las Mujeres

CUANDO PIENSO EN FRIDA KAHLO, I think of pain. And beauty. When I think of Frida Kahlo, I think of a lifetime sentence of physical agony...and the spirit that must have moved this woman, the spirit that enabled her to keep living, and to create. When I think of...

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6 de Febrero, 2008

The Unapologetic Mexican ACTION FIGURE!

Categorized under Arte , Cultura | Tags: arte, Jerry Vigil, the Unapologetic Mexican

I KNOW YOU have been on pins and needles for this little treat and now you can finally stop living without it! The Official Unapologetic Muertolito as crafted by the very talented Jerry Vigil, of vigilarte.net! Jerry is a wild gato who specializes in Chicano arte, Muertos arte, y...

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20 de Enero, 2008

Smart Employees Within!

Categorized under Cultura , Español | Tags: Home Depot

PROPZ to Home Depot (somewhere in Oregon) for choosing a different style than the tired "English Only" route....

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The Hipsanik Effect

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido | Tags: ALIENZ, blogs, Immigration, putos

IT DEPRESSES ME that I have to share a land with these people: The illegal aliens who invade our country, by their own illegal act, attack our fundamental ideals and principles, and endanger the future of America. They don't hesitate to play the 'race card' to validate their own illegal...

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18 de Enero, 2008

Poison? Or Antidote?

Categorized under Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Español , Frontera , Hipnotismo , Historia | Tags: borders, Bracero, Immigration, Mexico

South Carolina has one of the fastest-growing Latino populations in the nation, and illegal immigration is one of the hottest topics -- along with concerns about the economy and the Iraq war -- among likely voters in the state's Republican primary Saturday. In Saluda County, a collection of farming and...

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15 de Enero, 2008

Mix it up

Categorized under Cultura | Tags: Bob Marley, Mestizaje, mestizo

I'M A MEXICAN Romanian Jewish German American who was raised (moving from state to state) in a faith based on Eastern (India) philosophies, born in Los Angeles but who has a slight new york accent, who grew up immersed and in love with hip-hop, breakdancing, and many elements of...

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8 de Enero, 2008

Lydia Mendoza, ¡presente!

Categorized under Arte , Corazón , Cultura , Historia , M , Música , Raza , Salud | Tags: brown pride, Chicanas, Lydia Mendoza, Mexicans, music, workers

Lydia Mendoza, a woman whose song and performance became part of the cornerstones of American music, died on December 20, 2007 at 91 years old. Her accolades include being the first Texan to win the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship in 1982 and winning the National Medal...

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4 de Enero, 2008

Haitian Family Busted for Criminal Underpantsiness

Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Cultura | Tags: Police Brutality, satire

THANK GOD WE HAVE SWAT TEAMS who can respond to butt crack criminality! WELLINGTON — Six members of a family were arrested at The Mall at Wellington Green in an incident that began benignly enough over a pair of droopy jeans but ended like a chaotic scene out of...

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2 de Enero, 2008

wetback

Categorized under Cultura | Tags: Mexicans, racism

WHEN I WAS YOUNGER and I first heard the term "wetback," I had no idea why it was a slur for Mexicanos. I didn't ask anyone, this was before I met Google (around 1983ish? pic here is from '93 tho), and I was only left with my imagination. Whatever...

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12 de Diciembre, 2007

La Virgen Morena, Our Lady Guadalupe, Oatlaxopeuh

Categorized under Cultura , día festivo | Tags: Guadalupe, Mexico

Before the Christmas season "officially" begins on December 16, day when the first Posada takes place, Mexicans join together for the festivities of Our Lady of Guadalupe, on December 12. This is one of the most important dates in the Mexican calendar. On this date, thousands of the faithful from...

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9 de Diciembre, 2007

Pretty Bird Woman House

Categorized under Acción , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , Indígena | Tags: indigenous, Olbermann, Pretty Bird Woman House, The Haunted Land, Violence Against Women

OLBERMANN, I already know you read me, dawg. Stop LYIN'. And we all know you are down with tha populace, and have been a beacon of hope to many of the voiceless. You have put that pretty mug in front of the camera and scoffed forth many important statements...

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6 de Diciembre, 2007

Ask a Chola Bout the WGA Strike

Categorized under Cultura , Humor , Raza | Tags: Ask A Chola, WGA, YouTube

sombrero tip to Michael A. Deliz aka The Latino Insurgent. ¡Órale!...

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1 de Diciembre, 2007

Volver [Return]

Categorized under Cultura , Música | Tags: Almodóvar, Estrella Morente, Flamenco, music, YouTube

WHILE THIS VIDEO may not be as well shot as the other videos I'v posted on my favorito female flamenco singer, Estrella Morente again blows minds and sweeps us off our feet with this rendition of Volver, which was featured in the Almodóvar film of the same name. What a...

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25 de Noviembre, 2007

America's Little Warlings

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Guerra | Tags: Change, Children, escuela, Hope, Peace Warriors, Power to the People, war on terror, White Supremacy

“We’ve worn handmade peace shirts every Thursday since the first week of school, without fail,” Skylar said. But what started out as a light-hearted gesture soon started to be taken out of context. Students started approaching the group members, yelling obscene things at them, said Lauren. “People just turned...

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22 de Noviembre, 2007

A Focus of Mine

Categorized under Cultura , Medios | Tags: racism, White Supremacy

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 9:46 AM.
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18 de Noviembre, 2007

Overtaking the Joneses [The War Between Surnames]

Categorized under Cultura , Historia , Medios | Tags: Adoption, español, familia, historia, hype, Language, Latino, My Life, Que Viva Las Mujeres, The Haunted Land

THE EPIC STRUGGLE BETWEEN SURNAMES has been raging across the land largely unnoticed, but somewhere or other, the battle lines have been drawn. Articles like the New York Times' In Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up to Joneses bring an accounting of the war torn namescape to us back...

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1 de Noviembre, 2007

Happy Day of the Dead!

Categorized under Cultura , día festivo | Tags: Dia de Los Muertos

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28 de Octubre, 2007

Ojos Para Volar

Categorized under Arte , Cultura , Foto | Tags: arte, Graciela Iturbide, Que Viva Las Mujeres

THREE FOTOS today celebrating the arte of Graciela Iturbide and the beauty of la Mujer....

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15 de Octubre, 2007

There's Death in the Passing Lane [The White Lens IIX]

Categorized under Corazón , Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Español , Hipnotismo , La Lente Blanca , Mi Familia | Tags: Adoption, assimilation, familia, Lou Dobbs, mestizo, Mexicans, pundits, racism, Tancredo, The White Lens, Xicanos

WHEN I MET THE WOMAN who is now mi novia, I told her about my mexican ethnicity as if it were a religion I could choose to practice—or not. As if it were something I didn't have to be. And I guess that's exactly how I felt for so...

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13 de Octubre, 2007

Pomona Art Show, Armando Cepeda

Categorized under Arte , Cultura , Raza | Tags: arte

AN ART SHOW by vato Armando Cepeda, going on in Pomona, Califas if you're in the area. I pass this goodie along. Dear Friends and Family, I am happy to invite everyone to see my newest artwork entitled: "Venganzen Cabrones." It will debut this Saturday at dA Gallery in...

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4 de Octubre, 2007

Yo Soy La Cultura Cambiando

Categorized under Cultura , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: Defend the Honor, Ken Burns, mestizo, Mexicans, Xicanos

THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN keeping up with the whole Ken Burns saga have watched a long series of events play out. From being excluded from any kind of representation in a war that many Latinos died in, to hearing it rationalized as "we wanted a universal appeal" (paraphrasing, but...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 10:18 AM.
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23 de Septiembre, 2007

Like a Long Awaited Dawn

Categorized under Cultura , Política Estados Unidos , Raza | Tags: Democrats, Power to the People, Republicans

For 5 years the NDN community has been telling a simple but important story - that the very rapid growth of the Hispanic community was creating a very new and powerful dynamic in the American electorate. In our new report, Hispanics Rising [pdf], NDN reviews the emerging politics of...

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16 de Septiembre, 2007

México's Dia de la Independencia

Categorized under Corazón , Cultura , Política México , Raza , día festivo | Tags: Mexicans, Mexico, Power to the People, Xicanos

THIS IS THE DAY TO SHOUT and let that Mexican@ pride ring out. The revolution that drove the Spaniards and colonial rule from Mexico was long (ten years), and bloody, and complicated, many factions of the people having different agendas and levels of participation and reward. (As Marcos has...

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14 de Septiembre, 2007

La Fiesta Latina 2007

Categorized under Cultura , día festivo | Tags: Fiesta Latina

IT'S TIME AGAIN for the local La Fiesta Latina, celebration, and this time Lil 'Nita is big enough to come along, and enjoy herself! I cannot believe that it's been a year already. Wow. Anyway, I want to bring the new videocamera, but I'm afraid with so many Mexicans,...

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13 de Septiembre, 2007

Back in the Good Ole O.R.

Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Guerra , Hipnotismo , Indígena , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: activism, borders, Chris Simcox, Environment, False History, Immigration, KGB Bar, New York City, NYC 2007 Pro-Immigration Meetup, The Haunted Land

AS IT TURNS OUT, I cannot blog on much that went on at the Immigration Strategy Meeting. My packet of materials is half drafts that cannot be disseminated (lest they "fall into the wrong hands"), and the cat who invited me to the panel I spoke on (and who funneled...

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24 de Agosto, 2007

Vitruvian Muertos

Categorized under Arte , Artivism , Cultura , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: Outtakes and Remakes

PART OF AN ONGOING Artivism project between me and mi amigo Jerry at vigilarte.net. See below the cut for the full skelemonty....

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Una Historia Hipocrítica

Categorized under Cultura , Historia | Tags: historia, hype, hypocrisy, Mexico

Are you tired of waiting to pay for your groceries while Illegal Aliens pay with food stamps and then go outside and get in a $40,000 car? Are you tired of paying taxes when Illegal Aliens pay NONE! Are you tired of reading that another Illegal Alien was arrested...

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21 de Agosto, 2007

¡Cámara, Luces, Acción!

Categorized under Arte , Cultura , El Cine , Pelicula | Tags: Film

FOR ALL HISPANIC FILMMAKERS: ORLANDO - Orlando [FL} will have a new Hispanic film festival on its calendar this October, if all goes according to plan. [...] The festival is being organized by Phoenix-area photographer and filmmaker James Schoepflin, who has helped organize horror-film festivals in that city. Filmmakers with...

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Whites Have More Fun?

Categorized under Cultura , Humor , Medios | Tags: I should tag this something

ROD STEWART WAS RIGHT! TWO UNLIKELY PARTNERS--THE YOUTH-TARGETING MTV and decades-old Associated Press--offered results Monday on a joint seven-month study looking to gain insight into the psychographics of today's 13- to-24-year-olds, and specifically trying to determine 'what makes them happy.' [...] [R]esearch showed that non-Hispanic whites are happier than blacks...

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17 de Agosto, 2007

Don't Forget to Serenade!

Categorized under Cultura | Tags: Mariachi, YouTube

OKAY, so the director and or shooter of this amateur vid doesn't know about The 180º Rule, which keeps audiences comfortable and not confused about the space they are in when viewing two characters in dialogue, but aside from fundamental filmmaking rules such as this, this has got to be...

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12 de Agosto, 2007

A Culture of Firewater

Categorized under Cultura | Tags: assimilation

SOME KILLERS REPEAT THIER METHODS. Substance abuse increases among recent Hispanic immigrants as they replace their traditional cultural beliefs with those of white Americans, according to new research presented today by Oregon State University assistant professor Scott Akins at the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting in New York. The study...

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27 de Julio, 2007

The Sound of Bandwagon Wheels Turning

Categorized under Cultura , Música | Tags: Coldplay

IN A SHOCKING AND UNEXPECTED TURN, the London band Coldplay has announced that they will switch their sound to salsa, instead of the frigid brit-pop that has made them so famous up to now. Coldplay's new album is taking on a Latin flavor, says the band, who has been...

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22 de Julio, 2007

The Truth About Tacos

Categorized under Comida , Cultura | Tags: Comida

THE TRUTH ABOUT TACOS is that like many other foods and culture that the USA appropriates, most of us here in El Norte have no real idea what a "taco" is to those from whom we got them: If you think you've had a true taco after stuffing seasoned ground...

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8 de Julio, 2007

Let's Blow This Taco Stand

Categorized under Cultura , Ley , Raza | Tags: Mexicans, racism

WE KNOW THAT THERE HAS ALREADY BEEN FRICTION between some New Orleans officials and the Mexican American community that has stepped forth to utilize the work/labor/marketing opportunities opened up by the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina—by which New Orleans was drowned due to American Government deciding the town didn't need to...

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7 de Julio, 2007

GREED: American as Vat-Fried Apple Pie and Hamburger Brain

Categorized under Cultura , Parenting | Tags: Fast Food Nation, Greed

Look, it's ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way of survival of the fittest.'" —Ray Kroc, creator of the McDonald's...

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16 de Junio, 2007

Envidia - Internalized Oppression Pt. 07

Categorized under Cultura | Tags:

A man stumbles upon a fisherman who is gathering crabs and placing them in a bucket with no lid. When the passerby asks the fisherman whether he is concerned that the crabs might climb out of the bucket and crawl away, the fisherman replies that there is no need...

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31 de Mayo, 2007

Show Them the (Whitewashed) Liberty Door

Categorized under Cultura , Frontera , Migra | Tags: assimilation, Hope, migra, racism

A FANTASTIC POST from Laurafern, about her experience married to un migrante mexicano, and some realizations and fears and hopes she's having about life in America. The sad truth is that Fermin’s attitude reflected on things I wouldn’t have believed, that my pro-immigrant views are not the mainstream, that...

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29 de Mayo, 2007

The Media Excuses Itself, Part 814

Categorized under Cultura , Hipnotismo , Medios | Tags: The White Lens

QUESTION: Why is it when you turn on the TV, click on a news Web site or pick up a newspaper, the only Latinos you ever see or hear about are criminals, illegal immigrants or half-clothed female singers with dyed blond hair? ANSWER 1) There is no agenda to demonize...

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16 de Mayo, 2007

Quetzal at Centro

Categorized under Cultura , Música | Tags: Califas

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Copwatch Benefit Concert - Santa Ana

Categorized under Cultura | Tags: Califas

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13 de Mayo, 2007

Hasta Los Huesos

Categorized under Cultura | Tags: Rene Castillo, YouTube

A SWEET SHORT to take us into our Sunday evening. "Until the Bones" would be the literal translation, but "Down to the Bones" is the more accurate (Usually called "Down to the Bone"). A short claymation by animator/director [español] René Castillo. It would be reductive to position this flick as...

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5 de Mayo, 2007

Flags and What They Mean

Categorized under Cultura , Palabras , Raza , día festivo | Tags: brown pride, Chicanas, May Day, Mexicans

A WORD to anyone who doesn't understand it immediately: When you see brown people waving Mexican flags in the May Day marches? You are seeing a Chicano/Chicana (Mexican American, YES a citizen) show support for the land that birthed their blood. You are seeing a strong fist in the...

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30 de Abril, 2007

Compuspanic

Categorized under Cultura | Tags: Computers

BAD NEWS FOR LOU DOBBS and those who dream of a culture with no flava. After all, it is an illusion that the American market won't keep responding to the growing Hispanic [as in "Spanish-Speaking"] population. Because it will. The latest sign that you cannot possibly hope to curtail the...

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26 de Abril, 2007

Indian Killer Day

Categorized under Acción , Cultura , Raza , día festivo | Tags: Columbus, indigenous

As many of you know, this is the 100th anniversary of the designation of Columbus Day as a state holiday in Colorado, the birthplace of the Columbus Day holiday. Also, as many of you might know, several of us from TCD/AIM have been working with State Senator Suzanne Williams...

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24 de Abril, 2007

Let's Have Nexus

Categorized under Cultura , Derechos Humanos , Literatura , Política Estados Unidos , Sexismo , Signs of the Sixth Sun , Violencia | Tags: Devious Diva, Hate Groups, Hope, Kathy Sierra, Let's Have Nexus, Overlap, pundits, racism, Soul of the World

THE NON-MAINSTREAM areas of the blogosfero—the Brown™, the Feminists, the disabled, the marginalized—bring us many intelligent, hopeful, restless people finding the ways in which they want to grow, to reach for their own light, their own right, their own path away from the cramped vessel of personal servitude or...

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5 de Abril, 2007

Newt Destroys the Spanish Language

Categorized under Cultura , Español | Tags: Language, The Haunted Land

WHOA. I liked him better when he was insulting us in English. Newt Rich-Gringo shows us how calm a man can keep his face as he murders the Spanish Language in broad daylight whilst also patronizing the people he just insulted while simultaneously implying that not knowing English well...

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26 de Marzo, 2007

Defend The Honor - Update March 25

Categorized under Cultura , Historia , Raza | Tags: historia, hype, Ken Burns, Power to the People

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING the story of Ken Burns' and his omission of Latinos from his newest documentary on WWII, The War—here are some updates on the situation: This week, NCLR president Janet Murgia wrote an eloquent and very direct letter to PBS chairman Paula Kerger. That...

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24 de Marzo, 2007

¡Mexicanas Mujeres!

Categorized under Cultura , Raza | Tags: Mexicans

IT'S NOT OFTEN that you'll hear me say "I sure wish I were in Houston!" But this is an exception. Concerts, exhibitions and performances are only part of the National Sor Juana Festival: A Tribute to Mexican Women, which begins Sunday and continues at venues across the city through...

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22 de Marzo, 2007

The White Lens IV [The White Idea]

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , La Lente Blanca | Tags: Adoption, My Life, racism, The White Lens, White Supremacy

YOU CANNOT BE HALF-WHITE because "White" is an idea. It is not a lineage. It is the idea of being both untouched by the Brown™—unmixed with the dark beast of Other—as well as guided by notions of White Supremacy. The "One-Drop" rule kept White slaveowners from having to be...

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19 de Febrero, 2007

Chican@ Art Mag #3 [March Release]

Categorized under Arte , Cultura , Literatura , Raza | Tags: Chican@ Art Mag, Pat Buchanan, pundits

IF YOU WANT TO READ UP on why I post about this mag, or how I am involved (writer), you can click here to find all the entries on this topic. If you've been reading a while, you already know. And you also know that the Winter issue is...

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7 de Febrero, 2007

Mi Familia 5 [Mama's Memories]

Categorized under Cultura , Mi Familia | Tags: Antepasados, brown pride, familia, Mexicans, My Life, tortillas

MY CHILDHOOD LIFE was characterized by many things. One of them is how often we moved. I lived in a fair number of places over the course of my life. No, to preempt the persistent question—I was not a "military brat." I was in the care of some people...

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6 de Febrero, 2007

Feed the Head

Categorized under Cultura , Literatura , Medios | Tags:

I'D LOVE TO HEAR your suggestions on replacing a few magazine subscriptions. A friend has stopped ordering the local (rightwing-tinted) newspaper, as well as Newsweek®, and Art in America®, and a travel magazine. I can't be sure they cancelled them all due to the reasons I would have—propaganda for...

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25 de Diciembre, 2006

Reverse Double Racism x 9

Categorized under Cultura , Música | Tags: YouTube

MY FAVORITE LINE given (when discussing a Jay-walking charge): "My man Pooty-T is from the street; he got to be able to walk across the street." Sombrero tip to Herm for pointing me to this irreverent piece of non-Christmas related humor. There's some funny stuff in here that speaks...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 12:57 PM.
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