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Well, there were no official “Hispanics” in the United States in 1940, apparently, because that term didn’t come along until 1970.
According to NBC Latino:
“The terms “Hispanic” or “Latino” were not used then,” says Mark Hugo …
Is it just me, or do you too hold your breath when something horrible, scandalous happens because you’re hoping: “Don’t let him (or her) be Latin!”
Drunk driving deaths, notorious mistresses, mass shootings, suddenly popular reality …
When marketers aim their shiny campaigns at people with Latin roots, they pretty much go in via language and they segment by three popular categories:
The Spanish-speaking dominant; the English-speaking dominant and the bilingual — the …
Questions of Race and Ethnicity
There are more people living in the one Miami subdivision where my parents live than in the whole of my little town outside of Nashville, Tennessee.
And except for the nice family …
In the first five minutes of CBS’ new ¡Rob!, we had jokes on siestas, Catholics and their birth control — or lack — guacamole and Julio Iglesias.
Then there was the gardener with the leaf blower …
Cosmo: Latinas are Hot
The word is out that spicy Cosmopolitan magazine next year will launch a new magazine, Cosmopolitan Latina, for Spanglish-speaking, bi-cultural American Latinas.
(Kind of like the Tiki Tiki, but with more advertising and …
¡Rob!
¡Rob!, a new show starring Rob Schneider, is about a non-Latino and his new Mexican in-laws. The wife is played by Nadine Velazquez, who is Puerto Rican. Also starring in the CBS comedy is Cheech …
Ponte Las Pilas Now
A Mexican immigrant has released a video urging Latino parents to give up a little novela and soccer action to spend more time with their kids and in their new communities.
Eli Reyna …
Celebrate the Chi Chis
Pa’ reir a little in a naughty-ish way. A company called Ta-Ta-Toos has released a Spanish line of temporary tattoos for the chi chis. A portion of the online sales for October …
I ran out of money during my last semester of college.
Despite loans and grants and working, casi ni un centavo.
And then a $500 scholarship came through: the Polly Robinson Memorial Scholarship.
I use the scholarship’s full …
