February 2012
48 posts
“And if a woman should say she doesn’t want to have children at all, the world is...”
– Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman (via littlekitsch)
looking forward to her book being released in the us …
Think Mexican: The Oscar Is Mexican: Academy Award... →
thinkmexican:
The story behind the Academy Award’s Oscar statuette is itself one fit for the movies. It starts in the 1920’s during the Mexican Revolution. Emilio Fernández was studying in Mexico’s military college when he decided to take up arms and help support the revolutionary cause of Adolfo de la…
cristinalovesthis asked: Have you read open veins of latin america? I plan on reading that next and hear its amazing.
“Everywhere in Latin America one finds a tremendous resentment of the United...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
still so very relevant today.
“This is covert white supremacy in the guise of educational...”
– —Junot Diaz’s book “Drown” was part of the banned curriculum of Mexican American Studies. Diaz won the Pulitzer prize for “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”
Junot Diaz | The Progressive
(via larebelde)
Letters of Note: To My Old Master →
From Letters of Note: In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at...
January 2012
52 posts
“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron....”
– Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and filmmaker. His book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s Fist Fight in Heaven,” was on the banned curriculum of the Mexican American Studies Program.
http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie