Category: Latino Studies

  • Five Queers Of Color On What Connects Us To Our Complicated Or Mixed-Race Identities Autostraddle 2015-01-02 Hannah Hodson There is a sense of community that comes with being a person of color, but for some of us, settling into that community isn’t always comfortable. Because we don’t get a membership card along with our birth…

  • MTV Decoded Answers The Question ‘Are Hispanic People White?’ Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2016-08-25 Carolina Moreno, Editor It’s complicated. When it comes to matters of race and ethnicity, things can get very complicated. Thankfully, Franchesa Ramsey is always ready to decode everything. In a new episode of MTV News, the host of “Decoded” tackled…

  • Personal Essay: Yo Soy Boricua Latina 2010-01-18 La La Vazquez A lot of people don’t realize that I’m Latina, which is fine. One thing about being Latina is that there isn’t one look that comes with the territory. I don’t expect people to know my cultural background just by glancing at me. I do, however,…

  • Pensive in Prague: Examining Identity Abroad, June 20th The Harvard Independent 2016-07-24 Gabby Aguirre This is the second in a series of summer blog posts where the author reflects on her time as a first-generation Latina studying abroad in Prague. You can find the first blog post here. The date is June 20th, and I’m…

  • Meet Anthony Ocampo, the Professor Who Wrote a Book on Why Latinos and Filipinos are Primos Remezcla 2016-07-12 Kevin Nadal Anthony Ocampo As one of the few Filipino American psychology professors in the US, it can get lonely. I am the only Filipino American professor on my campus and one of the few tenured Filipino…

  • PHOTOS: What It Means to Celebrate Afro-Latinidad in the Time of Black Lives Matter Remezcla 2016-07-12 Isabelia Herrera, Music Editor Photography by: Itzel Alejandra Martinez, Photo Editor Itzel Alejandra Martinez When Remezcla headed to the fourth edition of New York City’s Afro-Latino Festival this weekend, surrounded by colorful dashikis and bold #BlackLivesMatter t-shirts, we were…

  • Standing Up for My Biracial Identity Marie Claire 2016-06-28 Christine Stoddard And what no one understands about it. I realized that my mother was unlike my classmates’ mothers the first time another kid asked if she was my nanny. From the on, I became a little spy in my own home—seeing my mother as other…

  • NYC AfroLatino Fest Comes at an Important Time Sounds and Colours 2016-07-05 Gina Vergel It seems the fourth edition of AfroLatinoFest in New York City comes at a crucial time. A survey by the Pew Research Center, released in March, points to a disconnect in how some Afro-Latinos living in the United States report their…

  • 5 Steps Latinos Can Take to Combat Anti-Blackness Remezcla 2016-07-09 Andrew S. Vargas We are all reeling from the events of this past week. The deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police have become an all-too-familiar narrative in our public life, but each time we are confronted with these images it dredges…

  • The 2020 Census and the Re-Indigenization of America Truthout 2016-06-26 Roberto Rodriguez Mexican American & Raza Studies Department University of Arizona As the 2020 US census looms, this arcane ritual will once again result in the painting of a false picture of the demographic makeup of the United States. While the nation has been getting…