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The concept of whiteness is as much a fabrication as is Latinidad.
Yarimar Bonilla • Opinion | Enrique Tarrio Is a Curious Case of Latino White Supremacy - The New York Times
Self-Study Guide Weaving Networks for Systemic Change
Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights (American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century)
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Adaptation and resilience will have to be revisited through the creation of grounded, situated, and pervasive design capacity by communities themselves who are bound together through culture and a common will to survive when confronted with threatening conditions, not by global experts, bureaucrats, and geoengineers who can only recommend the busin
... See moreArturo Escobar • Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States
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Siempre todo ha tenido que ver con la identidad. La identidad es el subconjunto de rasgos que contrastan y siempre ha existido, no es posible vivir sin fenómenos identitarios. Yo creo hay una parte de la gente que para quitarle el estatus político a estas categorías las llama políticas identitarias. Pero un asunto de la colonización se trató de lo
... See moreSalome Herce • «No Hay Nada Más Político Que Una Lengua Porque Construye Lo Común»
At the high school level, a Latino studies program in at least one district (Tucson, Arizona) drew the ire of state officials, who enacted a ban on any program that teaches ethnic division. The program’s supporters, of course, pointed out that they were merely teaching students their own history and pride in their own culture. They also emphasized
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