by Daniel Cubias As President Bush once famously asked, “Is our children learning?” Well, in everybody’s favorite state — Arizona — the answer seems to be a resounding no… assuming, of course, that we’re talking about Latino kids. Recently, during a legislative debate in Phoenix, a Republican state representative “stirred up gasps and anger” when… [Continue Reading]

by Eric Jude Cortes Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World (Random House, 2009) Christians and Muslims locked in battle. Soldiers in far off lands fight on behalf of their sometimes negligent leaders. Lives of innocent people destroyed as the result… [Continue Reading]

by Maitri Pamo When I was a child, my family was friends with another family with two girls who were very close in age to my sister and me. We mocked them because they would answer in English when their parents spoke to them in Spanish. We felt that it was a lacuna in their… [Continue Reading]

by Libby Juliá Vázquez Back in November I wrote an article for Being Latino titled Shiloh Jolie-Pitt is a lesbian? in response to the outcry over a mother allowing her son to wear a ‘girl’s’ Halloween costume. As of last week, the latest public outcry is over a J.Crew ad where a little boy is… [Continue Reading]