Archive for March 3rd, 2006
Latino or Hispanic ad nauseum
3:15 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Culture|race · 8 Comments
3 Mar 2006
It’s the most commonly discussed question on Latino blogs: is the correct term “Latino” or “Hispanic”? And why do we still care?
For whatever reason, this topic continues to ignite debate throughout the Latino (can you tell which one I’m partial to?) community. And what exactly does “Hispanic” mean?
The Latin Americanist asks:
What is a Hispanic? Or a Latino? Which is a race, which is a cultural distinction? Where do Brazilians fit into all of this??? What if your parents are from Europe but you were born in Argentina and your only language is Spanish??? What if your parents are from Mexico but you were born in the US and your only language is English??? What if we were allowed to check up to five different boxes for race/ethnicity on the census?
Get your Oscar on with VivirLatino — LIVE!
2:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Events|Movies|TV|VivirLatino · 3 Comments
3 Mar 2006
How long has it been since you last enjoyed a fantastic Oscar night en casa with internet luminary Mamita Mala? What? Never? Well, sailor, your ship has come in and all of you Oscar dreams are about to come true.
VL’s own Mala will be blogging the Oscars, from red carpet to those last moments of glory LIVE here on VivirLatino.
What’s so special about this live Oscar blog? Well, how many Latino takes on the Oscar does mainstream media give us? That’s right — none!
The one and only Latino live blog coverage of “Los Oscar” begins at 7:00 pm EST (4:00 pm for us on the West Coast) with “la alfombra roja”.
Who will Mala dis? What will she dish? Will she share her popcorn with you or kick you off the couch? Tune in on Sunday to find out.
Students Win Looking Through Latino Lens
12:35 pm By Maegan La Mala · Arts|children|New York City · Comments Off
3 Mar 2006
A class of students from Petrides School on Staten Island were the grand prize winners of the Hispanic Heritage Photography contest in New York City. The teenager students took images of their community and culture for the competition sponsored by Time Warner Cable and the History Channel. The winners received a digital camera and a computer work station.
Via / NY1
To U.S. Bolivian Farmer=Terrorist
3 Mar 2006
The “Winds of Change in the Americas” conference, taking place this Sunday in Burlington, Vermont, will be without its keynote speaker because the United States labeled her a terrorist. Leonida Zurita Vargas, a Bolivian coca farm organizer was told at the airport in Santa Cruz, Bolivia that her visa was revoked because of ties to terrorists. A section of the USA-Patriot Act which bars anyone from entering the US that poses a security threat or has participated in or incited terrorist activity was cited as the reason for the visa revocation. According to Jim Shultz of the Democracy Center in Cochabamba, her visa was cancelled allegedly because:
In 2003 [Zurita] was accused of “terrorism” by the government of ousted-President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, she served a brief time in jail in Cochabamba, and was released for lack of evidence.
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