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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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Neto’s Tucson: Photographer captured decades of Hispanic life in Tucson

Published July 3, 2016 | By admin

On June 17, longtime Tucson photographer Frank Martinez passed away. He was 92. The ubiquitous figure on Tucson’s west and south sides had a small studio next to the old Sky Villa lounge on South 12th Avenue. Here’s a column I wrote in December 2000 about Martinez and his contributions as a documentarian of Tucson’s Mexican-American/Chicano families:
Through his camera lens, photographer Frank Martinez has seen Tucson’s social changes…
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Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Front Page Items

Number of Hispanic farm operators continues to grow

Published July 1, 2016 | By admin

WENATCHEE, Wash. — From humble beginnings in Mexico, Jesus Limon has spent a lifetime working hard for his slice of the American dream.
As a young man, he picked celery and oranges in California and tree fruit in Washington state. Twenty years ago he became one of the few Hispanic orchard owners in the Wenatchee area.
He and his wife of 40 years, Maria Luisa Limon, helped put their four sons through college and today see retirement in their not-too-distant future.
They now own 150 acres of apple trees and lease 35 acres of cherry and apple trees…
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Posted in Agriculture, Front Page Items, News and Information

DPS is hiring more Hispanic state troopers, and Texas’ border surge is a big reason why

Published June 29, 2016 | By admin

AUSTIN — The face of Texas’ border surge is undergoing a makeover, as the security push has helped the state Department of Public Safety hire more Hispanic officers recently.
Over the past 18 months, more than 40 percent of the 450 participants in DPS’ grueling six-month trooper academies identified themselves as Hispanic. A Dallas Morning News analysis shows that it’s the highest such percentage DPS has seen over the last decade — and maybe ever…
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Posted in Front Page Items, Immigration, News and Information, Social Sciences

Michael Zajur, President of the Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Published June 27, 2016 | By admin

HOW HE HAS SHAPED THE REGION: Zajur, as head of the chamber, has provided a voice for the Hispanic business community during a period in which the Hispanic population in Virginia essentially doubled.
In 2000, the year Zajur founded the chamber, about 4.7 percent of the state’s population was Hispanic or Latino. In 2014, that percentage was up to 9 percent…
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Posted in Business, Front Page Items, News and Information

FHSU hopes to open doors with Hispanic College Institute

Published June 24, 2016 | By admin

HAYS — They are thankful for the doors that Fort Hays State University opened for them, and they are excited about giving back to fellow Hispanics.
FHSU graduates Hector Villanueva, of Garden City, and Alma Hidalgo, of Perryton, Texas, were right in the thick of things Wednesday morning as high school students from across Kansas, Colorado and Missouri climbed off buses to participate in Fort Hays State’s first Hispanic College Institute…
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Posted in Education, Front Page Items, News and Information

College’s Hispanic Student Dental Association Chapter Named National Chapter of the Year

Published June 22, 2016 | By admin

June, 21 2016
The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Dentistry’s Hispanic Student Dental Association (HSDA) Chapter was named the Hispanic Dental Association’s (HDA) 2016 National Student Chapter of the Year at the HDA’s recent Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. This award recognizes the chapter for outstanding efforts to provide service, education, advocacy and leadership in Hispanic oral health.
Selected by a committee consisting of HDA National Office staff members and invited jurors, the chapter stood out among affiliate dental student chapters across the nation…
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Posted in Dental, Front Page Items

Possible Selves Mapping With a Mexican American Prospective First-Generation College Student

Published June 19, 2016 | By admin

RE Michel – ACA Postmodern Career Counseling: A Handbook of …, 2016 – books.google.com
A high school diploma is no longer enough for most people to secure the career or lifestyle
they imagine. The value of a postsecondary education is well accepted, and significant
efforts have been made to support students who further their training past high school. For …
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Posted in Education, Front Page Items, Psychology, Social Sciences

Voto Latino Power Summit Kicks Off To Mobilize Young Latinos

Published June 18, 2016 | By admin

With Hillary Clinton now virtually assured to be the Democratic nominee for President, the Voto Latino Power Summit being held this weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada holds particular significance for the growing power of Latino millennials, who make up 44 percent of all Latinos according to recent analysis from Pew Research.
An estimated 3.2 million Latinos will be able to cast their votes for the first time in the upcoming presidential election, and will likely pit Republican frontrunner Donald Trump against Clinton. With Donald Trump poised to get the lowest vote ever among Latinos for a Republican presidential nominee, organizations like Voto Latino will be an important venue for using the attention of the election to connect young Latinos with each other in networking opportunities and getting them motivated to become active citizens…
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Posted in Front Page Items, News and Information, Political Science, Politics, Social Sciences

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…
Link to interview

Posted in Economics, Front Page Items, News and Information, Political Science
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“…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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