César Díaz's essay on the difficulties of growing up in Brownsville and then going off to college from a poor family and then living in white Austin is your read of the day. It'd be nice of course if Guernica chose an image that was...
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We will have a much better country now that the administration has prioritized bombing Syria for reasons no one can adequately explain instead of fighting for the millions of undocumented.
Glad to see the Mexican immigrants killed in a 1948 plane crash near Fresno on an federal plane deporting them back to Mexico finally remembered with a proper gravestone. Woody.
Jeff La Noue has an interesting piece about how to "fix" the Rust Belt cities. Using Toronto as a model, he asks why the Canadian side of the Great Lakes is booming and the American side is in a decades-long slide. There are complex reasons...
I have to admit that I was optimistic that meaningful immigration reform would happen in 2013. Although I didn't think I could underestimate the Republican commitment to white supremacy, I.
Your daily American racist.
I've spent July in southern Mexico. The region today is defined by immigration. Traveling to one of the towns my wife studies, way up in the Mixteca, an indigenous and mountainous area about five hours from the state capital of Oaxaca, we were talking to...
Good that John McCain is so giddy about creating what he calls the most militarized border since the Berlin Wall with the immigration bill. I mean, that turned out pretty.
Really, it can't happen fast enough. Deaths exceeded births among non-Hispanic white Americans for the first time in at least a century, according to new census data, a benchmark that.
Esther Cepeda defends Whole Foods disciplining two Spanish-speaking workers violating its English-only policy while on the job in a very special way. But say they were. What’s the problem? Not too long ago people understood that when you enter into an employment agreement with a...
Arguments against immigration reform are usually pretty bad. Racism is at the heart of most, sometimes couched in dog whistles like "culture" or the Republican "they won't vote for us.
Building off my Chinese Exclusion Act post from the other day, here is a good example of pure, unadulterated anti-Chinese racism, from the New York Times, August 26, 1885. In.