As they begin reading, children form perceptions about the world around them. Some are fortunate enough to see themselves in books. But for Latinx children, that is not the case. According to the Comparative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, only 5 percent of children’s books published in 2018 featured a Latinx character. …
For many Americans, the perception of immigration comes from films, which for the most part, are not made by immigrants. The films below offer a range–from El Norte, which is historically significant, to more current films that look at detainment. F 1) El Norte. Watch this film and you’ll understand why Gregory Nava emerged as a …
Book Review by Vincent Bosquez By Daniel Alarcon In the late 1980s, I served as a Marine Corps recruiter in South Texas where it was my goal to enlist three recruits a month into the armed forces. At the time, “making mission” was all that mattered to me since I knew the Corps would take …
Book Review by Jose B. Gonzalez I have to admit that I am not a big fan of cartoons or comic strips, and I am indeed one of those readers who prefers to let words speak for themselves. Having said that, I have been intrigued by the work of many talented Latino artists who have made …
Since 1930, when its idea of counting Latinos was to ask individuals if they were Mexican, the U.S. Census has modified its approach to counting Latinos. For example, in 1970, it asked only samples of the overall population whether they were, “Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, Other Spanish,” or “No, none of these.” …
