Archive for September 6th, 2006
Spain Hearts VivirLatino
2:55 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Newspapers| Spain| TV| VivirLatino · Comments Off
6 Sep 2006
VivirLatino’s first online poll has made waves across the ocean in Spain. 20 minutos (PDF – Page 22), a free daily paper, wrote up the online poll where you, our readers, voted Shakira as the most influential Latina in the U.S. Our poll also made the Informativos Telecinco afternoon newscast in Spain.
Literary Journals, a lo Latino
1:01 pm By Maegan La Mala · Arts| Books| literature · Comments Off
6 Sep 2006
The Indiana Review has recently published its Summer 2006 Latina & Latino Writers issue. A step in the right direction, signaling a current, albeit slow moving, trend to color the canon: the creation of an issue dedicated entirely to us is, for lack of a better word, gangsta.
The issue is jam-packed with great Latino and Latina poets and fiction writers. The talented and beautiful–and NYU MFA grad–Angie Cruz. One of her novels is going to be made into a movie sometime soon. (Trust me.) Or how about Filipina Puerto Rican poet Kristin Naca. (BFA girl currently doing her Ph.D. in English) Or, how about a man who’s a doctor, a Harvard Medical School doctor, who finds time to write poetry and fiction? Check out New Jersey native Rafael Campo. Or, if you want to read a new and upcoming poet, also published in this incredible issue, check out Columbia’s (that’s Columbia, not Colombia, i.e. MFA) Diana Marie Delgado, a NYC poet from LA, read and listen to her at fishousepoems.org. Or, how about another Columbia graduate, Emmy Peréz, a fantastic writer who is only an Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing at the University of Texas-Pan American, when she isn’t writing. I wish I would have had a professor like her. And that is just a sampling of the great writers, not just Latino or Latina writers, that you’ll find throughout this issue. (Included are, Robert Lopez, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Peter Ramos, Gary Soto, Virgil Suarez, Liliana Valenzuela (the woman who translates all of Sandra Cisneros’ books) and Sheryl Luna to name a few.) Check it out. Order just an issue or get a year subscription!
Gap Remains in the Digital Racial Divide
6 Sep 2006
As the Information Age is upon us, access to computers and the Internet have become increasingly vital in our every day lives. However, according to AP, minorities are still falling through the Internet crack.
Recent information released from the National Center for Education Statistics, an arm of the Education Department, has found that more white children are using the Internet than Hispanic and African American students. The report concluded that two of every three white students (67%) use the Internet at school compared with 44% of Hispanic and 47% of African American students.
Mark Lloyd, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, stated that the noticeable absence of Internet use in school for minorities would only establish “barriers” later on in life.
Not using the Internet “narrows their ability to even think about the kind of work they can be doing,” Lloyd said. “It doesn’t prepare them for a world in which they’re going to be expected to know how to do these things.”
Lloyd is correct in his assessment because studies have shown that access and ability to Internet use have helped improving people’s learning, job prospects and everyday living.
Yet Another Poll on Immigration Shows Juventud is Ok With It
8:52 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · Comments Off
6 Sep 2006
I don’t understand why people who dislike Latino immigrants so much read us and link to us (I certainly can’t be bothered to visit any of their blogs/websites). But one of our readers sent us a link to a recent PollingPoint poll on immigration. While the demographics of who took the poll remain unclear (which always raises flags to me), according to the poll the younger you are, the more likely you are to think that immigration is not a big problem. Latinos are more likely to think that immigration has favorable effects on the economy than whites or blacks and a strong majority don’t want children of undocumented people in public schools.
According to respondents, 24 percent do support allowing children of illegal immigrants to attend schools, but a majority, 61 percent are opposed to it.On this question women are also more supportive than men of allowing children of illegal immigrants to attend school.
Via / PollingPoint
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