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Category Archives: History
Why Mexicans Don’t Trust Government: “No hay mal que dure cien anos, ni cuerpo que lo aguante”
The word trust is linked to belief. It is almost impossible to trust a person if you do not believe him. The negation of trust is a lie that evokes a sense of betrayal. In personal relationships, you can love a … Continue reading
Slow and Low: Keeping the Lowrider Tradition Alive
Slow and Low: Keeping the Lowrider Tradition Alive Many believe lowriders cruised their way to Los Angeles from El Paso, Texas, and still others will tell you they came from the other side of the Mexican border in Cuidad Juarez, … Continue reading
Call For Papers: Heteropatriarchal Institutional Violence and the Future of Chican@ Studies
Call For Papers: Heteropatriarchal Institutional Violence and the Future of Chican@ Studies The MALCS Subcommittee on Institutional Violence has been organizing to address the many ways institutional violence against Chicanas and queer and trans Chican@s persists in colleges and universities … Continue reading
How History is Socially Controlled in K-12 Setting Standards Serfs and Lords
People ask me if the banning of books is actually a blessing in disguise because it calls attention to the banned books. I respond, “Hell No!” Censorship threatens our freedom of speech, and it is the final step toward a … Continue reading
Don’t Mess with Meskins
In West Texas, during the struggles to desegregate the schools in the later part of the 1960s, I listened to attorney Mark Smith caution a small audience that, “You may not like Meskins, but the Constitution gives them the right … Continue reading
Since When Is Losing Winning? Playing-Follow-the-Leader
The other day I gave a presentation to teachers in Moorpark. Like always you can predict the question and answer period. More often than not you get friends in the audience who don’t ask questions but give speeches instead of … Continue reading
Perspectives on the History of Mexicans in the U.S. Life and experiences My view of where we are now and where we are headed To Ventura County Teachers
Mexican American or Chicana/o History by definition is the history of people of Mexican origin in the United States. It is about how Mexican origin people survived and formed an identity within the U.S. As such Mexican American history belongs … Continue reading
April 27, 2013
For the past six weeks I have been sending you reminders of our first photo Mecha/Alumni photo exhibit on April 27, 2013 from 5-10 PM to take place on the entire first floor of Jerome Richfield. This was the old … Continue reading
Is Chicano Studies Relevant?
Is Chicano Studies as relevant as it was just 20 years ago? “Have you ever taken Chicano Studies?” His face and voice projected a steady countenance as he looked directly at me from across the table. It seemed he could see … Continue reading
The Immigration Paradigm: The Shell Game
When I was in high school I never thought I would appreciate the conjugation of verbs and the declension of nouns. It was boring; however, I must admit that it introduced me to a deductive system of formal argument consisting … Continue reading
The Young Grow Old
Rank and file Democrats are desperate for a turnaround of their political fortunes, and an end of the Robber Baron era — so much so that they see the recent elections as their deliverance. For them, the last presidential election … Continue reading
Immigration: The Death of the Chicana/o Left
Prior to 1986 a clear Left voice could be heard on immigration reform. Among its priorities was that there would be no guest worker program, there would be no employer sanctions, there would be a more humane border enforcement policy, … Continue reading
¡MEChA Esta Presente! Press Conference at CSULA on April 25th
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Arizona: The Ruling
U.S. Circuit Judge A. Wallace Tashima has made his decision to uphold disparate treatment of Mexican Americans, and the constitutionality of HB 2281. The purpose of this law was to destroy Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies Program. In doing … Continue reading
What’s In A Name? What You Make of It!
A war on the memories of Mexican Americans and other minorities is occurring raging throughout the country, and I am interested in knowing why the right wing is so obsessed with erasing our historical memory? In places such as Arizona … Continue reading
Harvest of Loneliness presented by MEChA de CSULA on April 15
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Arizona Being Political: It is Immigration Reform, Stupid!
For the past forty years, the most pressing issue for Mexican Americans and other Latinos has been immigration reform. It has dominated our conversations, our agendas, and for the more politically conscious among us, it goes to the core of … Continue reading