Every Day is Magic: Ada Limón
In her 2015 collection, Bright Dead Things, a National Book Award finalist for poetry, Ada Limón writes of moving to Kentucky: “Confession: I did not want to live here.” It’s perhaps not a surprising sentiment coming from a coastally oriented person who was raised in Northern California, attended college in Seattle, and then spent over a decade in New York City.
But Limón and her husband, Lucas, have been in Lexington for seven years now and the effects of settling into this place are noticeable in her new book, The Carrying (Milkweed, Aug.). It’s a phenomenally lively and attentive collection replete with the trappings of living a little closer to nature. While Bright Dead Things is marked by a preponderance of light, such as images of fireflies and neon signs, The Carrying features numerous appearances by various trees, birds, and beetles. Limón also demonstrates a greater willingness to be explicit in naming colors, particularly green. “It’s crazy green, the whole book,” she says. “Lexington is the greenest place I’ve ever lived.” Similarly, where in Bright Dead Things, Limón tells a lot of stories and anecdotes, in The Carrying she is very present in her thoughts and experiences.
As it turns out, these shifts in focus have another, altogether unexpected source. While putting Bright Dead Things together, Limón was diagnosed with chronic vestibular neuronitis, which can cause bouts of vertigo. “If I’m really having vertigo, it’s pretty intense and I really have to focus,”
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UC ethnic studies requirement is vital in the nationwide fight for inclusivity
“I know firsthand what it feels like to have my culture and history tacked on to the end of a social studies unit.
My Asian American heritage – along with African American, Latinx and Indigenous backgrounds – still remains undervalued and grossly underrepresented in education. These histories are misrepresented at best and actively banned at worst.
At UCLA, we’re fortunate to be a part of an institution that continues to progress toward a more diverse student body, but it’s not immediately apparent why we need to continue our shared journey of inclusivity. It’s crucial for all students to feel represented in and out of the classroom and to have the opportunity to learn more about each other in the process…”
Mexican marketing company sets out to take over the American construction market
‘Taking advantage of high-quality work at low prices has been a privilege reserved just to the big corporations until now thanks to this innovative and adventurous company that proposes a simple but effective solution similar to the one big corporations have found. Many factories have optimized their profits since many years ago by moving their operations to other countries with highly qualified workers and lower costs of living. Some of the most common industries that have adopted this model are maquiladoras, customer service and software development.
Cliknow knows it’s time to expand the catalog of services Mexico can export to the world. “Mexicans, besides being hard workers, are highly talented, smart, and eager to grow and to create better opportunities for themselves and their people” says Cesar Silva, director of Cliknow Marketing n’Stuff…”
2nd Annual Mexican-American Film and Television Festival is Changing the Narrative in Hollywood
“…The MACEF Film Festival submission application is for those individuals who want to showcase their work to other film lovers, filmmakers, and Hollywood industry professional. The two-day festival will feature films and TV content made by Mexican-Americans, featuring Mexican-Americans and championed by Mexican-Americans. The filmmakers will have an opportunity to network with industry professionals and audiences. The festival will be inviting trailblazing filmmakers whose film changed the course of independent filmmaking and will provide a learning experience and a screening of their films with couple of retrospective screening.
Fitting with this year’s theme of “changing the narrative, recognizing who we are”, MACEF’s mission is to change the negative narrative of Americans of Mexican descent by highlighting their stories and their positive contribution to the U.S…”
https://www.politicalcortadito.com/noticias-newswire/?l=mexican-american-film-television-festival
UEI Global Education Organises a Fusion of American & Mexican Food Festival
“UEI Global Education is an educational initiative of Berggruen Charitable Trust (USA), India’s top rated Hospitality Education Institutions since 2007. UEI offers courses that can be split into Traditional Higher Education and Vocational Training.
UEI Global currently has 9 state-of-the-art campuses across 9 cities pan India. UEI Global offers a bouquet of industry-oriented programs focused on the requirements of the service sector. The vision is to impart education through meticulous & contemporary curriculum, standardized processes and qualified faculty in a world class environment to create multi-skilled professionals…”
Mexican-American Judge Teresa Sarmina immortalized at Philly City Hall
“In the storied walls of Philadelphia City Hall now hangs a portrait of Honorable Teresa Sarmina, a Mexican-American judge who served in the city’s judicial system for decades and whose name now resides among the Hispanic legal caliber in Pennsylvania…”
https://aldianews.com/en/politics/elected-officials/judge-sarminas-portrait
Attention Georgia Companies: How NOT to Recruit a Foreign Workforce
“…A recent case involved Mexican engineers who were brought to Georgia on non-immigrant NAFTA Professional (TN) visas by a staffing agency promising them high-level technical jobs. They wound up doing manual labor at parts suppliers for Kia and Hyundai. They could not leave their roles, however, because their legal permission to work in the United States depended on the TN visas sponsored by that employer...
https://www.globalatlanta.com/attention-georgia-companies-how-not-to-recruit-a-foreign-workforce/
Alejandra Aragón, photographer
“Alejandra Aragón won the Latin America Professional Award for her moving project I Came To La Pinta Because They Told Me My Father Lived Here. We speak to the Mexican photographer about her experimental works and main themes of focus in her work…”
https://www.worldphoto.org/blogs/28-10-22/winners-interview-alejandra-arag%C3%B3n
UCLA appoints Miguel García-Garibay as senior dean of UCLA College
“UCLA appointed current dean of physical sciences Miguel García-Garibay as senior dean of UCLA College on Tuesday.
Executive vice chancellor and provost Darnell Hunt announced the two-year term appointment of García-Garibay, which began Nov. 1. García-Garibay will also continue in his role as dean of physical sciences…”
https://dailybruin.com/2022/11/04/ucla-appoints-miguel-garca-garibay-as-senior-dean-of-ucla-college
National Hispanic Heritage Month: Making STEM Work for Everyone
“…Diana Trujillo’s Instagram handle is @fromcalitomar. That’s not Cali for California. It’s Cali, Colombia, her hometown, and she made it to Mars. The Colombia native was NASA’s flight director for the Mars 2020 mission.
Trujillo is just one name among many Hispanics making strides in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Yet today, Hispanic high school students in STEM courses are less likely to have internet access at home or feel school is preparing them for digital citizenship…”
https://www.yahoo.com/now/national-hispanic-heritage-month-making-131500709.html
Certification, minor in Mexican-American Studies now offered at St. Mary’s University
“…In a state like Texas, where Mexican-Americans are now the majority, that’s very important,” Roman said.
She said the certification in Mexican-American Studies is useful in professional development, especially with the increased emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion in the business world…”
Opinion: Pursuing Greater Representation in Health Care
“According to the census report, more than 80% of the people who live in the El Paso metropolitan area identify as Hispanic. Yet Hispanic students are under-represented in health care education as reported by the Mexican American Hispanic Physician Association…”
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/opinion-pursuing-greater-representation-in-health-care/
Mexican American Proarchives Annual report on Mexican American Professionals for 2021
The American Community Survey is an annual survey administered by the federal government to help local officials and community leaders and businesses understand the changes that take place in their communities. It includes percentages of our population’s graduate school attainment and the employment of Mexican Americans in various occupations. These important factors influence the allocation of federal resources. Mexican American Proarchives uses the data provided by the American Community Survey to better understand how Mexican Americans compare to the general population.
The primary goal of Mexican American Proarchives is to inform its readers of the percentage of Mexican Americans who obtain a graduate or professional degree. It is the main indicator of individuals employed in professions which require a degree; for example, doctors, teachers, etc. Mexican Americans are considered an underrepresented minority because their percentage of professionals when compared with the general population is very low.
For the year 2021 the results are as follows when Mexican Americans are compared to the total population
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
GRADUATE OR PROFESSIONAL DEGREE
Comparison of years 2020 and 2021
Here are some examples
The following is a mix of occupations in which Mexican American both underrepresented and over represented.
Bar graph shows the comparison between the total population vs Mexican Americans in:
MANAGEMENT, BUSINESS, SCIENCE, AND ARTS OCCUPATIONS
The following bar graphs show occupations in which Mexican Americans are employed at a higher percentage than the total population.
SERVICE OCCUPATIONS
NATURAL RESOURCES, CONSTRUCTION, AND MAINTENANCE OCCUPATIONS
PRODUCTION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MATERIAL MOVING OCCUPATIONS
INDUSTRY
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, FISHING AND HUNTING, AND MININING
RETAIL TRADE
Lastly, Mexican Americans are also poorly represented in,
MANAGEMENT, BUSINESS, SCIENCE, AND ARTS OCCUPATIONS
Director Elizabeth Gonzalez discusses UCLA’s ‘ambitious yet attainable’ Hispanic Serving Institution goal
“UCLA’s inaugural Hispanic-Serving Institution Director Elizabeth Gonzalez sat down with the Daily Bruin to discuss her qualifications, the university’s goal, her priorities as the HSI director and recommendations from the Hispanic-Serving Institution Task Force.
The chancellor’s office appointed Elizabeth Gonzalez as the HSI director in June. To meet UCLA’s current goal to become a Hispanic-Serving Institution by 2025, 25% of the university’s students must identify as Latino, according to the Department of Education…”
Mexican Farmworkers Are U.S. Heroes
“Foreign agriculture laborers deserve far more attention from Washington’s national security establishment…”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/18/mexican-farmworkers-are-u-s-heroes/
‘Victor Estrada: Purple Mexican’ paints LA-influenced artistic evolution
“More than 30 years of work and five years of curatorial planning have culminated in “Victor Estrada: Purple Mexican.”
Curator Marco Rios said he wanted to organize a survey show of artist and lecturer of painting Victor Estrada’s work since he first met Estrada more than five years ago. Rios said he was familiar with Estrada’s work from catalogs of “Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s,” a seminal 1992 exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art that featured Estrada’s sculpture “Baby/Baby.” The show centers around 40 of the artist’s drawings that have never been exhibited before and opened Oct. 6 at the ArtCenter College of Design – where Estrada earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine arts…”
Pursuing greater representation in health care
“According to the census report, more than 80% of the people who live in the El Paso metropolitan area identify as Hispanic.
Yet Hispanic students are underrepresented in health care education, as reported by the Mexican American Hispanic Physician Association.
Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare and the University of Texas at El Paso recently announced a new partnership that aims to improve that representation in advanced education…”
Mexico.. Promised Land for American Immigrants
“In contrast to the waves of immigrants drawn by the American El Dorado, 38-year-old Gabriel Zarate has left San Diego and California to live in Tijuana, the Mexican border city.
Like Zarate, an increasing number of Americans are moving to Mexico, where they find life less expensive and smoother, despite the risk of upsetting Mexicans deprived of their purchasing power.
“I’ve been in Tijuana for four years,” says the man who crosses the border to work in San Diego as an English teacher for foreign students and returns in the evening.
“One of the main reasons is the cost of living,” explains this Chilean-American. It is less expensive than California.”
“In San Diego, I lived in a studio for $1,275 a month,” says his colleague Mike Rashval, 36, who also teaches English in San Diego but works remotely from Tijuana. Here I pay about half of the amount.”
“I love Mexicans, and Mexican food,” continues Gabriel Zarate, who lived in Latin America for several years…
https://globeecho.com/politics/mexico-promised-land-for-american-immigrants/
Opinion: UCLA must follow through on its mission to gain HSI designation by 2025
“…To be federally designated as an HSI by the U.S. Department of Education, at minimum 25% of the university’s undergraduate enrollment must be from Hispanic or Latinx-identifying students. But at its current rate of growth – 0.41% increase per year – UCLA won’t reach the requisite 25% until 2029, despite its projected target of becoming an HSI by 2025…”
Making It Personal
“University receives two major awards to bolster STEM programs at Hispanic Serving Institutio
Over the many years she’s been teaching, Dolores Inés Casillas has noticed that a lot of Latinx students majoring in STEM disciplines gobble up her survey course on Chicana and Chicano culture at UC Santa Barbara. That natural enthusiasm to engage with issues that are familiar to one’s lived experience got her thinking. Would more Latinx students graduate with STEM degrees if it was more personal to their lived experience?”
‘It’s About Being Loved’: Linda Ronstadt Celebrates Her Mexican-American Heritage with New Book
“Linda Ronstadt, the queen of California cool, recalls her heyday and the formative years that inspired her new book Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands — published in early October, amid Hispanic Heritage Month.
When I apologize Linda Ronstadt for having to reschedule our interview after what turned out to be a relatively mild strain of COVID blew through our household, she tells me not to worry….”
