Posts Tagged ‘children’
Innocent Voices Speaks of War and Childhood
1:17 pm By Maegan La Mala · Movies · 3 Comments
13 Oct 2005
Not all childhoods are innocent. More than 300,000 children are serving in armies in over 40 countries. The feature length film, Innocent Voices, tells the story of one such child in El Salvador. Eleven-year-old Chava, the main character of the film, has just one year before he will be called to fight the government’s battle against the peasant rebels. Chava enjoys his last year of innocence looking for work to help his single mom and falling in love with a classmate. What makes this story especially compelling is the fact that it is based on the real life childhood of screenwriter Oscar Torres.
Innocent Voices, rated R, opens tomorrow, October 14, in New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Boston, Seattle, San Diego, Miami, and Philadelphia. In Chicago it opens October 21 and other cities on November 4.
It’s important to support films written by, directed by, and acted by Latinos, especially independent films that tell our stories, in our voices.
Gloria jumps on the Celeb Kid Lit Conga Line
11 Oct 2005
Because the Estefans apparently don’t have their hands in enough business ventures, Gloria Estefan has a children’s book hitting shelves tomorrow. The book , titled “The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog,”, is your typical underdog (literally) saves the day story with a Latino twist, and according to Estefan is based on her own experience of struggle when she arrived to the U.S. from Cuba as a child.
So far critics aren’t falling all over themselves over the book, which seems pretty common for celeb penned kiddie lit. But I bet that the general Latino parenting community will go out and buy the book because of the sheer lack of Latino themed children’s books in English available. If you don’t believe me, go to your local chain bookstore and check it out for yourself and while you’re there check out Gloria’s latest endeavor.
Via / Yahoo! News
¡Soy Unica! ¡Soy Latina!
10 Oct 2005
I just stumbled upon this site targeted for 9 to 14-year-old girls, ¡Soy Unica! ¡Soy Latina!, sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). They estimate that in under 15 years, 1 in 5 children in the US will be of Hispanic origin. The site and program is a response to the fact that Hispanic girls have higher rates of pregnancy, depression, and suicide than any other racial group.
Some people may ask you “Are you a Latina or are you American?”
¡Soy Unica! ¡Soy Latina! is really a great site with lots of information and activities for the girls. The What it Means to be Bicultural is a nice example of their articles.
Don’t worry, you don’t have to choose one or the other!
With sections on “Your Family”, “Your Body”, “Your Future”, and more, the site is very complete. Girls can find out “How to Become a Doctor”, Recipes for Day of the Dead, and even “Ask the Doctor” questions about health/body questions.
Available in English and in Spanish, I recommend that our readers share the site with the 9-14 year old girls in their lives.
Immigrant childen alienated from “Naco” school?
12:53 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · 3 Comments
27 Sep 2005
Interesting story out of Arizona via HispanicTips. Intriguing first because of the weird word play: the school is called “Naco” (which for non-Mexicans is a classist, racially charged insult flung from Mexican to Mexican) and it’s located in an Arizona town called “Ajo”. Is this one of those Latin American magical realism movies?
No. Apparently, there’s some tension going on in the town of Ajo, between Naco students and parents and authorities, with charges of discrimination against Mexican families:
The U.S. Department of Education received complaints of discrimination and sent a team to investigate. The complaint says Hispanic students who live within the school district were being asked to pay tuition while non-Hispanic students were not.
The allegation is that the children cross back into Mexico across the Arizona border after school, so they should be paying non-resident (probably international student) tuition.
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No! It’s a Super Latino!
2:06 pm By Maegan La Mala · Entertainment · 1 Comment
19 Sep 2005
Just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month. Latino cartoonists are featuring Latino comic superheros.
This certainly is a welcomed change from Latinos being feautured in newspaper pages as the villians. Hopefully these illustrated heros will help to inspire some real life ones.
And don’t think that it’s just the chicos who are getting in on the action, girls can turn to Araña Corazon, a half-Rican, half-Mexican Brooklyn chica superpoderosa.
It’s interesting to note though, that the Latina superhero was not created by a Latino/a.
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