Latino voters are disgusted by Republicans’ attitudes on immigration.

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Continuing his push to identify more historic sites important to the nation’s Hispanics, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar touted a new report Wednesday that identified several sites tied to Latino heritage in Colorado and New Mexico — including one in his own back yard — that could one day become national parks or historic landmarks. Read full article > >

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Sites identified as potential Latino national parks

Updated 3:42 p.m. ET Continuing his push to identify more historic sites important to the nation’s Hispanics, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar plans to tout a new report Wednesday identifying several sites tied to Latino heritage in Colorado and New Mexico that could one day become national parks or historic landmarks. Read full article > >

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The state’s crackdown on illegal immigration coincides with a surge in the number of Latinos of voting age.

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With Boom in Hispanic Voters, Obama Sees Opportunity in Arizona

Will Newt Gingrich’s advocacy of a humane immigration policy in Tuesday’s Republican debate come back to haunt him in his bid to win the GOP nomination? Or has the former House speaker managed to find language that walks the fine line between inflaming his party’s conservative base and aggravating the relationship between the party and the Latino community? Read full article > >

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A Loudoun couple who allegedly ran a dental office in the basement of their Leesburg home have been charged with practicing dentistry without a license, officials said. Nelson A. Castro-Diaz, 47, and Matilde A. Lindarte-Vargas, 35, had a full-service office in their home in the 1200 block of Tennessee Drive that included a dental chair, waiting room and a receptionist desk, according to Loudoun Sheriff’s officials. Authorities said the office catered to the Latino community. The couple told investigators they had worked as dentists in their native country, according to sheriff’s spokesman Kraig Troxell. Troxell said he didn’t know what country the couple were from. Read full article > >

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Many Latino voters, who went heavily for President Obama in 2008, are disappointed that he has not done more on immigration.

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The Caucus: Obama Courts Latinos With Speech

Census numbers show huge growth in the nation’s Latino population, at a time when the GOP is struggling to connect with that community.

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The Republicans’ Hispanic problem

A new study comparing census counts to annual estimates shows many more Hispanics than previously believed in states with small but growing Latino communities.

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Census finds more Hispanics than originally estimated

With Henry Cavill all set to take on the Man of Steel – and Warner Bros. itching to begin production this summer in order to make a December 2012 release date – expect a lot of casting announcements regarding Zack Snyder’s upcoming Superman film to begin spreading across the net like wildfire. The latest news is that Kevin Costner is being eyed join the film in an unspecified role. However, since that little nugget of news hit, the folks over at Latino Review are saying he’s up for the role of Jonathan “Pa” Kent, Clark Kent’s adoptive father. Seems like an obvious choice for Costner, who, let’s face it, isn’t exactly villain material. He’s a good-looking, Americana-type actor, and as Clark Kent’s father here on Earth, the… Read More Read Comments

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An Arizona jury returns Tuesday to decide the fate of an anti-illegal immigration activist convicted of killing a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter during a vigilante raid.

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Vigilante killer gets death penalty

An Arizona jury convicted Shawna Forde, an anti-illegal immigration activist, of murder in the killing of a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter during a vigilante raid.

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More Superman Casting Rumors Superman movie news is once again the hot topic around Hollywood, and over the weekend Latino Review broke out with a big story claiming the three ladies (Alice Eve,

With us the two great divisions of society are not rich and poor, but white and black; and all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals. — South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun Reporters should stop writing these beiging of America stories , and listen to Jamelle Boiue : The great majority of intermarriages take place between Hispanics, Asians and whites. If there is a great population of multiracial people, it’s almost certain that they will be some combination of Hispanic and white, or Asian and white. Undoubtedly, some of these people will “become” white in our racial discourse. To paraphrase myself, by 2050 or so, we’ll have a large population of white people with Latino or Asian last names, and a cultural understanding similar to the descendants of ethnic European immigrants.  Of course, the American racial landscape goes beyond white/black/Latino/Asian. Which is why it’s important to understand the significance of a black/non-black divide. On nearly every measure — from income and education to housing and health — the distance between blacks and everyone else is large and enduring. Upwardly mobile immigrant groups have always counterpoised themselves against the descendants of slaves in an effort to attain the privileges of whiteness. This is a simplified analysis, but my guess is that the dynamic will remain, with a few alternations. Some ethnic immigrants may never “become” white, but since blackness retains this social stigma, it’s very likely we’ll understand them as non-black, which in practice, is the same. This is a depressing perspective. But it’s not only the likely truth about our future, it’s the truth about our past. The first thing to understand is that race, as we know it, is an invention and a re-invention. You need not go back but a century to see people referring to the “Irish Race”   or the “Italian Race. ”  or the ” Hebrew Race. ” Indeed, by the standards of the 19th century racialism, today’s “white people” are an unholy, mongrel mix.  And so it has long been with “blacks,” an ethnic group whose members range in appearance from Beyonce and Charlie Rangel to Yaphet Kotto and India Arie. I love my family. But the photos from our Christmas Eve dinners immediately reveal that the notion that we’re all of the same “race” is not so much a statement of phenotype, but of culture and sociology. It should not be forgotten that both America’s president and First Lady have “white” ancestry . Well-meaning neophytes often suggest that if people of different “races” screwed each other, we’d all look the same, and our problems would disappear. Unfortunately, such magical thinking underestimates the abiding complexity of human thought.In fact people of different “races,” have been screwing for over two millenia. Our response–over the past 500 years–has been to invent more races.  The focus on sex, and even child-bearing, is ultimately obscuring. Miscegenation is a term invented during the run up to the Civil War. It specifically refers, not to sex between various races, but sex between blacks and whites. By that point, “miscegenation” was so widespread that it had reached the White House. But it changed nothing. Sex was never the point. Preserving power for a Calhoun’s broad American aristocracy was. The thinking was not limited to the South and did not die after slavery. The first suburbs bore those same pretensions of a broad gentry. And almost every one of them excluded blacks. The impact of that exclusion, and that mindset haunts us to this very day. It’s flattering to think our open sexual selves might erase the last vestiges of the white supremacy.  This is exactly backwards. Our increasingly open sexual selves (to the extent they exist) are the result–not the cause–of the fall of white supremacy, all of which have led us to a place where a black man is in the White House. But “whiteness” remains the big tent, resilient against the entreaties of one. It is the exclusion of that “one” which gives the thing meaning. 

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Miscegenation Ball

Curtis Acosta’s class on Latino literature opened on Monday with a poem:

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