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According to Mexican-born, Texas-raised Maria Teresa Herrera ’07, there are a lot of misconceptions about her culture, even within the Ivy League. “I feel that people think that everyone who is Latino is Mexican, even at a place like Harvard where there are Latinos representing all the Latin American countries,” she writes in an e-mail. Herrera is not alone in her desire to straighten out such views. Four years ago, members of Fuerza Latina, a pan-Latino student organization at Harvard, decided to produce an artistic exhibition with...
...xenophobia thesis makes sense when situated in a palpably post-9/11 national context. We’ve had fractious debates on the Dubai port scandal, immigration across the Mexican border, and outsourcing to India; Americans today are more distrustful and, in cases like this, possibly more resentful, of foreigners than they were 10 years...
...DEPLOY GUNS AND BADGES. This is an unabashed play to members of the conservative base who are worried about illegal immigration. Under the banner of homeland security, the White House plans to seek more funding for an extremely visible enforcement crackdown at the Mexican border, including a beefed-up force of agents patrolling on all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). "It'll be more guys with guns and badges," said a proponent of the plan. "Think of the visuals. The President can go down and meet with the new recruits. He can go down to the border and meet with a bunch...
...both BFA and Presencia Latina, as well as choreographing two pieces—“Jesusita” and “La Bamba”—which BFA will perform in the show. In choreographing “Jesusita,” a traditional Mexican piece from the era of the Mexican Revolution, Pinada has been able to return to the women’s dancing she loved so much as a child. She emphasizes the presence of “several twirls for the girls, who are definitely the center focus of the dance...
Indeed, in each role Pineda plays in this weekend’s production, she will be steeped in a strong tradition. As she concludes, “I hope to showcase the beauty and richness that Mexican culture has and offers through dance...