Rebellion and Repression  in Chiapas

Rebellion and Repression in Chiapas

A Massacre Foretold (DVD, 2007, 58 minutes), directed by Nick Higgins, Lansdowne Productions (massacreforetold.com) In the first scene of A ...
Latinos ACT UP: Transnational AIDS Activism in the 1990s

Latinos ACT UP: Transnational AIDS Activism in the 1990s

When the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was founded in New York in 1987, it not only introduced ...
The Migrants Will be Heard: A 40th Anniversary Conversation with Rubén Martínez

The Migrants Will be Heard: A 40th Anniversary Conversation with Rubén Martínez

A Los Angeles native of Mexican and Salvadoran descent, Rubén Martínez is one of the United States’ most trenchant writers ...
More Than 25 Years: Puerto Rican Political Prisoners

More Than 25 Years: Puerto Rican Political Prisoners

In 1999, President Bill Clinton commuted the prison sentences of 12 of 15 Puerto Rican men and women arrested in ...
The Diaspora Strikes Back: Reflections on Cultural Remittances

The Diaspora Strikes Back: Reflections on Cultural Remittances

Countries like Puerto Rico, Mexico and the Dominican Republic with huge diaspora populations in the United States are having a ...
From Mexico to New York Labor Joins the Struggle

From Mexico to New York Labor Joins the Struggle

About 10 million current U.S. residents were born in Mexico, and a great many of them regularly send money home, ...
Nueva York - Diaspora City: U.S. Latinos Between and Beyond

Nueva York – Diaspora City: U.S. Latinos Between and Beyond

Back in 1999, New York magazine was renamed Nueva York, at least for the week of September 6. The Spanish ...
Miami: Images of a Latinopolis

Miami: Images of a Latinopolis

Back in the mid-1960s, when I was applying to colleges, the University of Miami had a reputation for majors in ...