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America Georgine Ferrera
America Georgine Ferrera (born April 18, 1984) is an American actress. Born in Los Angeles, California, to Honduran parents, Ferrera developed an interest in acting at a young age performing in several stage productions at her school. Ferrera is the […]
Sophie Cruz
Little Sophie Cruz, who is the daughter of illegal immigrants, managed to make her way through the crowd of thousands lining Constitution Avenue and got within feet of Pope Francis’ open-air popemobile before Secret Service agents stopped her. However, the […]
Herb Albert
Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American jazz musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass, or TJB. Alpert is also a recording industry executive, the “A” […]
Pigments of Our Imagination: The Racialization of the Hispanic-Latino Category
Pigments of Our Imagination: The Racialization of the Hispanic-Latino Category April 27, 2011 – Feature by Ruben Rumbaut Race is a pigment of our imagination. It is a social status, not a biological one; a product of history, not of […]Facts Regarding Hispanic Heritage
Population 55 million – The Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2014, making people of Hispanic origin the nation’s largest ethnic or race minority. Hispanics constituted 17 percent of the nation’s total population. In addition, there […]HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
During National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15) we recognize the contributions made and the important presence of Hispanic and Latino Americans to the United States and celebrate their heritage and culture. Hispanics have had a profound and […]Understanding Culture and Diversity in Building Communities
What is culture? As community builders, understanding culture is our business. Whether you live in central Kansas or New York City, whether you live in Miami, Nevada, or the Pacific Northwest, you are working with and establishing relationships with people–people […]Why It’s Hard to Talk about Race
Dr. Robin DiAngelo explains why white people implode when talking about race. I am white. I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race. This […]Why Are People Racist?
Why are people racist? If we’re all part of the human race, why are people racist? After all, there are no biological differences between people. No race is superior or inferior to another. We’re all the same. There are many […]Let’s talk race: a teacher tells students not to be ‘color-blind’
Let’s talk race: a teacher tells students not to be ‘color-blind’ Author: Meghan L Mills , Assistant Professor of Sociology, Birmingham-Southern College Following the recent events featured in the media such as the riots in Baltimore that came after the fatal […]A Politically Correct Lexicon
Your ‘how-to’ guide to avoid offending anyone By Joel Bleifuss In the late ’70s, “politically correct,” “PC” for short, entered the public lexicon. Folks on the left used the term to dismiss views that were seen as too rigid and, […]A Civil Rights History: Latino/Hispanic Americans
A Civil Rights History: Latino/Hispanic Americans by Andrea Faville By the mid-1800s, land-hungry Americans had expanded westward from the original 13 colonies along the Eastern Seaboard to just beyond the Mississippi River. Emboldened with the fervor of “Manifest Destiny” — […]
Charles Rice – Gonzalez
Charles Rice-González, born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx, is a writer, long-time community and LGBT activist, co-founder of BAAD! In 1998, Charles co-founded, with award-winning choreographer/dancer Arthur Aviles, BAAD! – The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, […]The Truth About Mexican-Americans
The Truth About Mexican-Americans The New York Review of Books: Julia Preston December 3, 2015 Issue The tenor of the national debate over immigration changed from the first minutes of Donald Trump’s speech in New York City on June 16 […]Historical Overview of Mexican Americans by Mario Compean
Introduction Mexicans have lived in the Pacific Northwest since the 1850s. They continued to come to the region for mining and ranching opportunities through the latter half of the nineteenth century. In the first two decades of the twentieth […]10 Myths About Immigration
10 Myths About Immigration Teaching Tolerance Magazine. Editor’s note: While originally published in 2011, this story was updated in 2015 to reflect current statistics, policies and conditions in the United States. Myths about immigration and immigrants are common. Here are […]
Hispanic & Latino Activists
Cesar Chavez Union leader and labor organizer Cesar Chavez dedicated his life to improving treatment, pay and working conditions for farm workers. Born near Yuma, Arizona, on March 31, 1927, Cesar Chavez employed nonviolent means to bring attention to the […]
Prayer to Jesus, the Immigrant
Let us remember That we are in the holy presence of God Jesus, as an infant you fled to Egypt with your mother Mary and Joseph. You were a vulnerable family in a foreign land, looking for shelter and […]Prayers from the Stranger for the Stranger to the Stranger
Let us remember That we are in the holy presence of God O God, remind us that we are part of a whole, part of the land or our ancestry and your future, that we are both bordered people and […]Prayer for Migrant Women
Let us remember That we are in the holy presence of God O God, Creator of the heavens and of earth, Help us to see one another through eyes enlightened by understanding and compassion. Help us to listen […]
Loreta Janeta Velázquez
(June 26, 1842 – c.1902), was a Cuban-born woman who claimed that she masqueraded as a male Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. After her soldier husband’s accidental death, she enlisted in the Confederate States Army in 1861. She […]Collected Prayers for Immigrants
Let us Remember That we are in the holy presence of God Dear Jesus, Our journey through life is long and hard. We cannot make this trip alone; we must walk together on the journey. You promised to send […]Hispanic Heritage Month Prayer
Let Us Remember That we are in the holy presence of God O God, you have made of one blood all the people of the earth, but you have also richly blessed us with a world of many languages, cultures […]Latino Civil Rights Timeline – 1903 to 2006
1900s 1903 In Oxnard, Calif., more than 1,200 Mexican and Japanese farm workers organize the first farm worker union, the Japanese-Mexican Labor Association (JMLA). Later, it will be the first union to win a strike against the California agricultural […]
Dennis Chavez
The first Hispanic American to be elected to the United States Senate, Democrat Dennis Chavez had a long and distinguished career in government service, first as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and then as a senator from […]Site Visitors Map
