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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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Hispanic Home Ownership and Wealth in Perspective

Published June 15, 2016 | By admin

As it turns out, last year’s encouraging trend among Hispanic homeowners belies a widening gap in wealth between Hispanics and whites, according to a new report by Hispanic Wealth Project (HWP) that looks at the past few years.
While in 2015, Hispanics drove homeownership growth for the U.S.‒‒accounting for 69 percent of the total net growth in U.S. homeownership‒‒ the fact remains that homeownership is still only about 45 percent for Hispanics in the U.S.. In fact, the median Hispanic household is still a renter household, according to the report…
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Posted in Economics, Front Page Items

For Bilingual Hispanic Families, New College Search Tools Shine A Light On Financial Aid

Published June 14, 2016 | By admin

Now in Spanish, the “Kayak.com” of financial aid enables seamless comparison of personalized tuition estimates, Obama College Scorecard Data across 5,600 U.S. colleges and universities.
Launched at the 2016 Clinton Global Initiative America meeting, free online tools College Ábaco and Pell Ábaco address key hurdles to Hispanic college enrollment: language barriers and cost perceptions..
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Posted in Economics, Education, Front Page Items

Understanding Support From School Counselors as Predictors of Mexican American Adolescents’ College-Going Beliefs

Published June 11, 2016 | By admin

JC Vela, B Flamez, GS Sparrow, E Lerma
… roles and responsibilities of professional school counselors include helping students in a number
of areas, such as personal, social, and career development (Studer, 2005). High school counselors
are provided specific strategies to help Mexican American students overcome …
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Posted in Education, Front Page Items, Psychology, Social Sciences

Is Acculturation Really Dead?

Published June 9, 2016 | By admin

We’ve been hearing the death knell for acculturation for the past several years now in the Hispanic marketing world. A large percentage of Fortune 1000 companies, however, still use acculturation as a point of reference for segmentation so as a research company we still see acculturation models regularly.However, a call with an ad agency last week made us do a double take and question, is acculturation really dead? We were discussing a research strategy and mentioned segmenting by acculturation for research purposes and we were stopped dead in our tracks by the statement, “Let me stop you there. All Hispanics are bicultural. All Hispanics speak English. Acculturation is an outdated concept.” …
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Posted in Economics, Front Page Items, Management, Social Sciences

Latino Political Pulse: How Hispanics Have Changed California Politics

Published June 8, 2016 | By admin

In our Latino Political Pulse we ask experts and scholars to weigh in and give us their take on timely political and national topics and issues.
With the California presidential primary upon us, we asked a group of California Latina scholars to give us their thoughts on how Hispanics have changed politics in the Golden State and its lasting impact in 2016 and beyond…
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Posted in Front Page Items, Political Science

HOW DO HISTORY AND RELIGION AFFECT THE READING HABITS AND PRACTICES OF LATINO STUDENTS?

Published June 2, 2016 | By admin

DL Moguel – the Social Studies, 2016
… Paz argued that Mexican Catholicism, a combination of Spanish and indigenous traditions, had
different approaches than European Protestantism toward freedom of … By surveying over 35
thousand Americans over the age of 18, the 2014 Survey has found the following (Pew …
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Posted in Education, Front Page Items, History, Uncategorized

NALEO Educational Fund Board Member Rick Olivarez Joins Master Your Card Latino Advisory Board Read more: http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/16/05/p8052813/naleo-educational-fund-board-member-rick-olivarez-joins-master card Latino Advisory Council

Published June 1, 2016 | By admin

Olivarez to work with Master Your Card: Oportunidad to help Latinos realize greater financial inclusion and growth
WASHINGTON, D.C. (PRWEB) May 31, 2016
Master Your Card: Oportunidad, a community empowerment program sponsored by MasterCard®, today announced that Rick Olivarez, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund board member, joined the program’s advisory board.
“Rick Olivarez and generations of his family, including his grandfather who founded NALEO, have been committed to advancing the Latino community,” said Fabián Nuñez, former speaker of the California Assembly and chair of the Master Your Card: Oportunidad Advisory Board. “The Board consists of nationally recognized Latino leaders who…
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Posted in Economics, Front Page Items, Management

5-Year-Old Mexican Farm Worker Grows Up to Be US Federal Judge

Published May 31, 2016 | By admin

Manuel Barbosa’s life is a rags-to-riches tale that exemplifies the American Dream. The Dream isn’t perfect, as the obstacles in Barbosa’s life have shown, but he feels nonetheless that “it is alive and well.”
In 1948, when Barbosa was 2 months old, his parents crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico to Texas on a raft. At the age of 5, he started picking cotton with them to earn 1 cent per pound…
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Posted in Front Page Items, Law

The Growing Economic power of Latino-Americans-by the numbers

Published May 30, 2016 | By admin

While much of the rhetoric regarding Latinos this election cycle has focused on the divisive issue of immigration, a bipartisan group is out to change the narrative. The Latino Donor Collaborative aims to emphasize the growing economic power of Latino-Americans, and the potent political force they can become. John Yang talks to co-founders Henry Cisneros and Sal Trujillo for more…
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Posted in Economics, Front Page Items, News and Information, Political Science

Looking for Some Parenting Advice? Here are 5 Websites for Latina Moms

Published May 28, 2016 | By admin

Raising bilingual and bicultural children is no easy feat, though it’s very much a labor of love.
Latina moms who hail from another country want to know how to juggle raising U.S. children while keeping alive the family’s cultural traditions. Some Hispanic parents want to choose baby names that can work (and be pronounced!) in two languages.
These mothers may have questions about how to navigate the issue of Abuela wanting to be the most involved grandmother on the block or the “advice” that extended family members will be offering…
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Posted in Education, Front Page Items, News and Information

Why is There No Room for Hispanics On Corporate Boards?

Published May 28, 2016 | By admin

For the seventh consecutive year, the percent of directors of Hispanic origin elected to Fortune 500 boards was sharply lower than the overall representation of Hispanics in the U.S. population, according to the Heidrick & Struggles 2016 board monitor.
Of 399 new directors appointed by Fortune 500 companies in 2015, only 16 were Hispanic — a measly four percent. Over the past seven years, an average of 4.7 percent of new directors have been Hispanic. That dire statistic reveals there has been no discernible upward trend. Nothing. As the Hispanic share of the U.S. population has grown during those years, the gap of under-representation in the boardroom has therefore widened…
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Posted in Economics, Front Page Items, Management

These Latinos Won at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards

Published May 28, 2016 | By admin

Three Latino artists took home some Billboard 2016 awards.
Romeo Santos, known for leading the Bachata group Aventura, won Top Latin Artist at the 2016 Billboard Awards for the second year in a row.
Nicky Jam and Enrique Iglesias’ hit tune “El Perdón” won Top Latin Song, marking the seventh Billboard Award for duo’s international smash hit.
Juan Gabriel won Top Latin Album for Los Dúo — again — at the Billboards. His album Mis Número 1…40 Aniversario was also nominated in the same category…
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Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Front Page Items

UCSB Open to Latino Students’ Demands

Published May 28, 2016 | By admin

Several high-ranking university officials including Chancellor Henry T. Yang sat with students in El Centro on Saturday for six hours, going point-by-point through a list of more than 30 demands made by Latino UC Santa Barbara students.
The students are part of a campus group formed in April, VOCEROS, which means “spokespeople” in Spanish and is also used as an acronym for Voices Of the Community, En Resistencia, Organizing Solidarity…
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Posted in Education, Front Page Items

Northrop Grumman’s Jeannie Hilger Honored as National Latina of the Year by the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation

Published May 28, 2016 | By admin

SAN DIEGO, May 19, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) vice president Jeannie Hilger has been named a 2016 National Latina of the Year by the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation (MAOF), one of the nation’s largest Latino human service organizations…
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Posted in Front Page Items, Military, Social Sciences

Video: The Latino Artisans Who Power L.A.’s High-End Design Industry

Published May 28, 2016 | By admin

For every luxe handmade leather bag or delicate blown glass lamp on display at Los Angeles’ high-end design stores, there is likely a highly-skilled craftsperson (if not several) who helped produce the object. In a new installment of Artbound, KCET highlights the work and stories of the primarily Latino artisans and craftspeople who, despite being responsible for the production of much of the city’s high-end design and retail, remain mostly invisible…
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Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Front Page Items
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Useful links to obtain more information about Mexican American Professionals

GENERAL INFORMATION

Andanzas al Web Latino

National Science Foundation

U.S Census Bureau

Good Outline About Mexican Americans [Wikipedia]

Mexican American Professionals [Wikipedia]

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Engineers and Scientists

www.maes-natl.org

web.mit.edu

Lawyers

www.mabaattorneys.com

Physicians

mexican-american-hispanic-physicians-association

Teachers

www.amae.org

Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Mexican American Business & Professional Association (on Facebook)

Mexican American Latino Faculty Association – Texas A&M University

Mexican American Vintners Association

Poem

“…And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor—
And this, and so much more?—
It is impossible to say just what I mean!
But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while…”

T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Mexican American Proarchive Annual Report for 2022

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.

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