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The legal scholar Tanya Katerí Hernández has written that anti-Black racism has a lengthy and often violent history within the Hispanic/Latino community. [3] According to Hernández, anti-Black racism is not an individual problem but rather a "systemic problem within Latinidad" and that myths exist within the community that "mestizaje" exempts Hispanics/Latinos from racism.
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the largest and oldest Hispanic and Latin-American civil rights organization in the United States. [2] It was established on February 17, 1929, in Corpus Christi, Texas, largely by Hispanics returning from World War I who sought to end ethnic discrimination against Latinos in the United States.
Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America is a 2012 feature-length [1] documentary film based on the book Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, [2] written by journalist Juan González. [3] The film was directed by Peter Getzels and Eduardo López, [4] and premiered in New York and Los Angeles on September 28. [5]
In “American Historia: The Untold Story of Latinos,” Leguizamo sets the record straight as he delves into U.S. Latino and Latin American history in a three-part series.
The documentary is divided into twenty-one sections that consist of (1) Hollywood's first bad guy, (2) enter the Latin lover, (3) if you talk like deez, (4) the graveyard shift, (5) escaping the depression, (6) no seas tonto (don't be stupid), (7) some kind of hero, (8) good neighbor policy, (9) the name game, (10) cowboys and Mexicans, (11) the Latin lover returns, (12) the blacklist, (13 ...
Latinos Beyond Reel discusses how Latino men are always cast as the antagonists in films and television shows, and women often play the role of a maid. One actress Lupe Ontiveros, who was discussed in the film, has been quoted in previous articles saying she has played the role of a maid more than 150 times. [ 2 ]
Six million Americans identify as Afro-Latino, 12% of the adult Latino population, and they are more likely than non-Black Latinos to experience discrimination, according to a Pew study this year.
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