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I'm Tomás Summers Sandoval and this is my blog. I'm an asociate professor of Chicano/Latino Studies and History at Pomona College, the author of Latinos at the Golden Gate(2013), and a generally nice guy. You can learn more about me at my main website.
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Monday Blues
Here’s one to bring in the New Year…
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Tagged bluez, buddy guy, monday blues, muddy waters, new years, rolling stones
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Monday Blues
Keb’ Mo’ (Los Angeles, 1951-) performing “I Can’t Be Satisfied” and “Two Trains Running” (originally by Muddy Waters, from a special devoted in tribute to him). I’m not sure what kind of props Keb’ Mo’ gets in the blues world. … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Personal
Tagged blues, bo diddley, keb mo, mondya blues, muddy waters, music
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DREAM Act: the silver lining
UPDATE: The DREAM Act did fail cloiture, 55 votes for and 41 against. The DREAM Act goes up for a cloture vote in about an hour from now. It will not meet the 60 vote threshold to move to the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Immigration, News, Personal, Politics
Tagged asian, Chicano, cituzenship, dream, dream act, hispanic, Immigration, justice, latino, students
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A Year in The Life (The Facebook Edition)
There’s the Facebook app a lot of my friends are using which compiles all of your state updates over the past year and then generates a list of the words you used the most on Facebook in that year. I … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Humor, Personal
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I am Vito Corleone
At the end of The Godfather, an aged and somewhat frail Vito Corleone is counseling his son, Michael–the “good son” who has now become his heir in the “family business.” VITO I like to drink wine more than I used … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Personal
Tagged chavela vargas, good music, john prine, Tom Waits
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Latinos Are Human Beings
“And I thought he was foolish, this man in his seventies, who had no idea what you must do. But the fanaticism of my twenties shocks me now. As I feared it would.” Annie Dillard, The Writing Life Let me … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History, Immigration, Labor, News, Personal, Politics
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DREAM Act: the silver lining
David Hidalgo (1954- ), Louie Pérez (1953- ), Cesar Rosas (1954- ), Conrad Lozano (1951- ), and Steve Berlin (1955- ), collectively known as Los Lobos (East Los Angeles, CA); and Taj Mahal (Massachusetts, 1942-) performing “Highway 51″ (c. 1988).
Posted in Entertainment, Personal
Tagged asian, Chicano, cituzenship, dream, dream act, hispanic, Immigration, justice, latino, students
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Death, John Lennon, and Nostalgia
I don’t want to seem heartless when it comes to the death of John Lennon. While I was only 8 years old when the musical legend was gunned down, I remember it as a sad event, mostly for others, but … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, History, News, Personal
Tagged assassination, baby boom, baby boomer, gen x. beatles, john lennon, the sixties
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In CA, the Latino Future is Now
There’s a great piece in today’s LA Times spotlighting the rift in the CA GOP over a proposed ballot initiative which would do for California what SB 1070 did for Arizona. You can read it here. The Republicans who favor … Continue reading
Posted in History, Immigration, News, Politics
Tagged anti immigrantion, asian, CA politics, california, Chicano, GOP, hispanic, Immigration, latino, mexican, SB 1070
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Monday Blues
The legend Willie Dixon (Mississippi, 1915-1992) performing “Nervous,” sometime in the early 1960s.
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Tagged bass, delta blues, mississippi blues, monday blues, willie dixon
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