Race, Language, Culture and "Americanness"

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  How Latinos are growing and reshaping the United States

  NBC News

  Although most Latinos in Montana are of Mexican origin, numbering around 30,000, about 2,000 are Puerto Rican, according to 2019 census population estimates. Cruzado, born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, left the U.S. territory to be dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at New Mexico State University. …

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  Assimilation Didn’t Save Me — It Denied My Humanity

  Refinery29 - Jessica Hoppe

  Refinery29 Somos continues our preservation of customs that serve us and our retiring of those that don't this Latine Heritage Month. In 2023, we’re exploring how Latines are pushing back on assimilation by resurrecting and remixing traditions so they serve us today. The rolling clouds threatened …

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  Mexican Regional Connects Me With Family Despite Physical & Cultural Borders

  Refinery29 - Natalie Arroyo Camacho

  The phrase “ni de aquí, ni de allá” — Spanish for “not from here, nor from there” — has echoed in my mind for as long as I can remember. I'm a first-generation Mexican American whose family didn't always adhere to traditional Mexican customs because of acculturation and assimilation. I only ever …

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  Latinas are succeeding, but feel pressured to playing traditional roles for women

  NPR - Stella Chavez

  Despite being the fastest growing group among women over the past decade and their advances in education and entrepeneurship, Latinas in the U.S. continue to experience the same cultural and gender role expectations as previous generations, the findings of a new Pew Research Center study reveal. The …

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  How the Day of the Dead became a commercial juggernaut, embraced by Target and Nike

  Fast Company - BY Mathew Sandoval

  For those who hold the Day of the Dead sacred, it’s jarring to see the extent to which the holiday is mass-marketed. But according to Arizona State professor Matthew Sandoval, it has always been commodified. As a Mexican-American who celebrates Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, at the end …

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  The messiness of mooncakes, tradition, and flaky connections

  inquirer.com - Grace Wong

  One writer explores her shifting relationship to cultural tradition and her Chinese heritage. If I’m being totally honest, I never really liked …