Latino/a history 
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/24/2021
A Path to Citizenship for 11 Million Immigrants is a No-Brainer
by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act showed the effectiveness of a large-scale amnesty for undocumented immigrants and reflected a reasonable and pragmatic approach to normalizing the status of immigrants as workers and community members. It should be remembered as a success and a model.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
2/22/2021
My Brother’s Keeper
by Ada Ferrer
Historian Ada Ferrer offers her own family history of separation and reunification around the Cuban revolution.
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SOURCE: New York Magazine
2/3/2021
Reintroducing Sonia Sotomayor
by Irin Carmon
After nearly 12 years since her appointment to the Supreme Court, writer Irin Carmon reviews Sonia Sotomayor's role on a changing court and the media outrage over her suggestion that purely color-blind justice is an illusion.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/26/2021
Trump Began With His ‘Great’ Wall. He Ended With It, Too
by Geraldo Cadava
His legacy will be the divisions he has sown between Americans.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/26/2021
Cheech Marin’s Chicano Art Museum Is to Open This Fall
“My motto has always been that you can’t love or hate Chicano art unless you see it in person,” Marin said. “And now people will have a place to always see it.”
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
12/29/2020
The Deep Origins of Latino Support for Trump
by Geraldo Cadava
"In the White House, Joe Biden will have the opportunity to show Latinos that they’re important to the Democratic coalition. First, though, Democrats will have to acknowledge that a shift did, in fact, take place."
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
12/16/2020
What Americans Don’t Know about Latino History Could Fill a Museum
by Stephen Pitti
"[Senator Mike] Lee’s exaggerations sidestepped every available fact about Latinos in the United States. They caricatured the views of the museum’s supporters, including historians, museum professionals, community leaders and business executives."
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SOURCE: Valley Public Radio
12/11/2020
UC Merced Acquires Photo Collection Documenting Farmworkers In The 1960s
Historian Mario Sifuentez discusses the photographs of Ernest Lowe and the activism of Central Valley farm workers.
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12/13/2020
Senator Mike Lee Disregards History While Claiming to Support American Unity
by Matt Chumchal
Senator Mike Lee this week claimed proposed museums dedicated to the history of women and Latino/as in America would foster division by ethnicity and sex. A biology professor shares an experience with the new National Museum of African American History and Culture and argues that the proposed museums are in fact needed to create the understanding needed to forge unity.
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SOURCE: Public Books
11/20/2020
The Enduring Disposability Of Latinx Workers
by Natalia Molina
"For over a century, we have excused systemic inequalities, justifying them by pointing to Mexicans’ difference from 'us'."
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/15/2020
Where Is the Smithsonian Museum for American Latinos?
by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Ken Salazar
A former Florida Congresswoman and the former Interior Secretary present bipartisan advocacy for an American Latino Museum.
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SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
11/6/2020
The Cuban Revolution Explains Why Younger Cuban Americans Supported Trump
by William Kelly
The collapse of revolutionary ideology and wrenching economic transition in Cuba has influenced younger Cuban emigres to embrace individualistic and materialistic politics that align with Republican candidates and Donald Trump.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/5/2020
We Waited in Vain for a Repudiation That Never Came
Times columnist Jamelle Bouie considers why liberal and progressive hopes for a decisive victory failed to materialize; a big factor is overconfidence about the political loyalties of an incredibly diverse Latino/a electorate.
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SOURCE: WBUR
10/16/2020
A Look At The Long History Of Latino Republicans
Historian Geraldo Cadava discusses why many Latinos have voted for Republicans and why many will again.
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SOURCE: Dumbarton Oaks Library
10/19/2020
Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City (Virtual Lecture, 11/12/2020)
Urban historian A. K. Sandoval-Strausz discusses the impact of Latino immigrants on revived urban centers in the late 20th century, sponsored by the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/14/2020
Stop Othering Latinos
by Geraldo L. Cadava
When politicians see us as more than voters, we may give them our votes.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
10/6/2020
USC’s Natalia Molina Wins MacArthur Fellowship for Work on Immigrant Stereotypes
"Of this year’s 21 fellows across the arts, education, science, media, law and environmental studies, Molina’s work on race, gender, culture and citizenship is particularly timely, essentially at the heart of the national conversation as America undergoes a reckoning over systemic racism and grapples with questions of equity, inclusion and identity."
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
10/2/2020
Hispanic Heritage Month Gets Justifiable Criticism, but it’s Still Worth Celebrating. Here's Why
Historian Stephen Pitti says there is a good deal of skepticism that Hispanic Heritage month is coopted by corporations and is racially exclusionary of indigenous and Afro-latino identity, but it is politically significant for Latinos to be recognized as part of the culture of the United States.
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SOURCE: Catholic University of America
10/1/2020
Catholic University of America Presents Geraldo Cadava on "The Hispanic Republican"
Geraldo Cadava will discuss his new book on Hispanic Republicans on October 14 in a virtual seminar hosted by the Catholic University of America.
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SOURCE: San Antonio Express-News
9/22/2020
Alonso Perales May be the Most Important Mexican American Civil Rights Figure that No One Knows
Alonso Perales may be one of the most influential Mexican Americans of the 20th century who’s still relatively unknown; historian Cynthia Orozco hopes to correct that.
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