Discovering Latin@s
Spring 2000 | Volume III, Number 1
Table of Contents
Comings and Goings
Forum on U.S. Hispanics in Madrid
The Trans-Atlantic Project, an academic initiative to study the cultural interactions between Europe, the U.S. and Latin America has been invited by Casa de América, Madrid, to present a …
Cuba Study Tour
Waiting at José Marti International Airport for the first Harvard students to arrive for January’s DRCLAS Cuba Study Tour, my companion, a theater critic at Casa de las Américas, commented to me …
L@tinos
The Soulfulness of Black and Brown Folk
And so, by faithful chance, the negro folksong – the rhythmic cry of the slave – stands to-day not simply as the sole American music, but as the most beautiful expression of human experience …
The ‘Return’ of the State
The oath which immigrants are required to swear today on becoming naturalized citizens of the United States, reads, in rather archaic and high-sounding formal language: “I absolutely and …
Nueva York, Diaspora City
New York magazine has been renamed Nueva York, at least for a week. The Spanish word on the cover of the 6 September 1999 issue is an eye-catcher for readers of the popular weekly, and …
Latin@s in School
At the beginning of this new century, we have become a far more racially and ethnically mixed nation, but in our schools, the color lines of racial and ethnic separation are tightening….
Latin@ Education and Poverty
Maria E. Barajas, once a Mexican immigrant child placed in remedial classes because of her “language problems,” has focused her interest in bilingual policy through Harvard Graduate …
From “Cuentos” to “Ciencias”
I was recently given a choice by the editorial staff of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies to write a short essay for inclusion in DRCLAS NEWS. The choice was either to …
Costilla County, Colorado
An enduring legacy of the Southwest is its diversity of urban and rural landscapes. Albuquerque, San Antonio, and Tucson are symbolic of the evolution of rural spaces engulfed by growth …
Connecting with U.S. Hispanics
Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez at the Grammy Awards. Sammy Sosa in another home run race. George W. Bush and Al Gore giving campaign speeches in Spanish. The Taco Bell Chihuahua. …
Becoming Latin@s
In California hospitals today, the name most often given to baby boys is José. No wonder there is talk of México’s reconquista of that vast area of the Southwest that it had lost to the United States in 1848….
The Harvard Factor
A Review of Proceed with Caution
Highly specialized, uninspired, and repetitive, most literary criticism today has very little to offer readers outside of its discipline. Doris Sommer’s latest book, however, speaks to readers well …
Harvard Latin@s
Would you agree with Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine in his 1996 report when he stated while referring to diversity, “It is the substance from which much human learning, understanding …
En La Lucha y ‘Palante’
As members of the Harvard community of student learners, we have realized that in order to get the administration at Harvard to listen to the concerns Latinos are raising, students must come …
Diversity Archive
Social science research on Latinos has often perpetuated and emphasized negative stereotypes, and myths. At The Henry A. Murray Research Center, a national repository of behavioral …
Bilingual Aesthetics
How does one language interrupt another? How do different languages simultaneously inhabit the same space? How do language games threaten monolinguism? More than a hundred …
Voices
Being Latina at Harvard
I came to Harvard in 1993. I guess I wasn’t the traditional student, if such a thing exists. I was born in a rural village in the Dominican Republic and immigrated to the South Bronx, New York City in 1982….
Elena and Ela
Over the summer I had a mission. I was going to speak Spanish with Ela, my then five month-old sister. I’m 19 and speak choppy Spanish, the language of my grandparents, with a horrible accent….
Harvard Homecoming
I don’t do sequels. In ten years as a writer, I’ve published more than 400 articles, essays, and op-eds. I’ve written a book, and contributed to others. I’ve done a newspaper column and magazine features….