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...Californians never have been good at organized violence. The bloodiest battle ever to take place on California’s soil was the Dec. 6, 1846 Battle of San Pasqual during the Mexican-American War. Only a few months after the Americans took southern California without firing a shot, the locals rebelled. Twenty-one Americans and six Californios died in the battle; within the year, U.S. General Stephen W. Kearny put down the insurrection and marched triumphantly into Los Angeles...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: POSTCARD FROM LOS ANGELES: Power Politics | 7/13/2001 | See Source »

Imagine a Mexican-American TV soap opera written with Federico Garcia Lorca's dramatic intensity and passion for female characters but produced with the randy exuberance of a soft-core-porn video. Then spread it all across the gritty black-and-white panels of a comic book. What you would get is Love and Rockets, the comics series created by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, known to the comixcenti as Los Bros. Hernandez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graphic Sketches of Latino Life | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

Elizondo's mestizaje theology has found resonance beyond the Mexican-American community. "Every generation tends to build an image of Jesus in response to its deepest quest," he says. "When they are writing about Jesus, they are really writing about themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If Jesus Had Been Born in San Antonio | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

Another student, Alana Young, a Filipino American, says she left the sorority in 1998 because of racist attitudes. She overheard a sister say she had been taught that "n_____s work in the house and Mexicans work in the yard." Young says she saw a Mexican-American member of the sorority leave a meeting in tears after the sisters overruled her objection to putting a Confederate flag on a T shirt. Young finally quit after sorority members criticized her for giving her phone number to a black football player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blacks Need Not Apply | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...Another student, Alana Young, a Filipino American, says she left the sorority in 1998 because of racist attitudes. She overheard a sister say she had been taught that "n_____s work in the house and Mexicans work in the yard." Young says she saw a Mexican-American member of the sorority leave a meeting in tears after the sisters overruled her objection to putting a Confederate flag on a T-shirt. Young finally quit after sorority members criticized her for giving her phone number to a black football player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blacks Need Not Apply | 11/2/2000 | See Source »

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