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SPECIAL #LATISM TWITTER PARTY MONDAY, 11/19 ~ GENERACION AMERICA!
As you know, we at LATISM are all about empowering latin@s, and what better way to do that than to celebrate our achievements? Enter Generación América! Who better than latin@s to tell our
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TRANSCRIPT: 6/14 LATISM Immigration Twitter Chat
Last night on our weekly Twitter party, our community came out in hoardes to discuss what many consider the civil rights movement of our time: Immigration, to the tune of over 14.2 million impressions!
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02/02 #LATISM Twitter Party: The Latino Race Mosaic
In the Latino community, we tend not to talk about race – at least not in the obvious manner. Racial descriptors often come as terms of endearment, i.e. “negrito/a” or “moreno/a”, “rubio/a” or “güero/a”,
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Soy “Latina.” What does this mean?
Guest Post by Jenny Pellicer (@JennyPellicer) Defining one’s heritage and identity is no easy feat. Let us take my case; I was born in Norway to a Mexican father and a Norwegian-American mother. As
Read More »4/28 LATISM Party: Latinos and the New America
Without a doubt, we’re living in a very a transformational decade for the nation. The 2010 census shows vividly how the Latino community is leading growth in the nation’s most dynamic regions, a very
Read More »4-21 LATISM Twitter Party: Latinos and the Environment
Many think that Latinos don’t care about the environment but if you know anything about our culture, you know that we have always lived by the saying Reducir, Reutilizar, Reciclar. Be it because of
Read More »LATISM supports UNIVISION: Es El Momento for Education!
Education is, arguably, the most important issue of our times for Latinos. At a time when Latinos lead the dropout rates for High School graduation in the United States, it is essential that we
Read More »2/24 #LATISM Party: ¡Es el momento for higher education!
Americans are, reportedly, attending colleges in numerous record but discrepancies still exist especially with low-income students from all ethnic and social backgrounds. The problem becomes more complex when it comes to the Hispanic/Latino population. In fact, according to
Read More »2/17 Latism party: Celebrating our Afro-Latino heritage!
Although American-Latino culture in the United States is by definition, a fusion of different cultures and races, many Latinos face being classified by others as either white or black, and trying to fit into
Read More »Edu-Wednesday: Outlawing Chicanos: An Alien Education
Guest post by Reynaldo Macias (@reynaldomacias) “Yo soy Joaquín, perdido en un mundo de confusión: I am Joaquín, lost in a world of confusion, caught up in the whirl of a gringo society, confused
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