Word: mexicans
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...fashioned book written in an old-fashioned style. It's less a novel about Los Angeles than it is Los Angeles--in-novel-form, an attempt to embrace and describe and sum up the city by mixing fictional story lines about diverse characters--rich, poor, homeless; black, white, Mexican--with actual facts (somebody might want to check them) about L.A.'s freeways and crime rates and history and such. It's reminiscent of one of Tom Wolfe's billion-footed beasts, but it's even more reminiscent of the socially conscious early 20th century naturalism of John Dos Passos...
...believed are American policies that perpetuate oppression of the Palestinians. “Israel’s policies resonate with deep-seated currents in American history,” he said, drawing parallels between the establishment of the Israeli state and the American takeover of Native American and Mexican territory. The speech was part of a week of events sponsored by the recently-formed Nakba Committee, a cross-school coalition of students whose mission, according to Sultany, is “to promote awareness about the plight and experience of the Palestinian people...
...Harvard community through Latin-American music’s universal appeal. “I think that’s what is amazing about the Latin-American music—you can go around the world and see someone playing salsa—there can be a Mexican ballad being played in India,” he says.Performers in the show include students of all races and backgrounds, and the board members are proud of the amount of diversity in the show. Participants range from Asian dance groups to singers who are also in Kuumba. “Not everyone...
...American prisons; it is world where children live with their mothers behind bars until they are six, where corruption is rife and where killings are commonplace. But aside from portraying the misery of prison life, the producers also aimed to forge the kind of compulsive dramas that will attract Mexican TV fans. "We certainly understand drama in Latin America and that is what makes the telenovelas so popular," said executive producer Andres Tagliavini. "We wanted to keep that dramatic flavor. But at the same time, we wanted to raise the bar in terms of acting and cinematography...
...Brazil. But this is its first venture into Mexico, the undisputed leader in Latin American film and TV production. While Mexico's steamy telenovelas are cheap to make, they are wildly popular across the globe, being translated into over 50 languages from Russian to Indonesian. Teaming up with Mexican production company Argos, HBO brought in top cinema talent such as Carlos Carrera, director of the controversial hit film The Crime of Father Amaro, about a priest's affair with a teenage girl. It also persuaded Mexican authorities to let it work with dozens of real-life female prisoners, who play...