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My name is Tomás Summers Sandoval. I'm Chicano from southern Californian, a GenXer, and a fan of the Dodgers and Elvis. I am a husband, a father of three, and in my spare time I'm an asociate professor of Chicana/o~Latina/o Studies and History at Pomona College.Twitter
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Monthly Archives: May 2011
MONDAY BLUES (05.23.11)
Big Bill Broonzy (Arkansas and Mississippi; 1898-1958) singing “Just a Dream” (from the 1939 recording, a bit more swing to it than the original).
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Tagged big bill broonzy, blues, blues music, chicago blues, Mississippi, monday blues
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To the Class of 2011
I wish you a life filled with happiness and love and peace. I hope you can protect the youth and passion you nurtured so well while you were here. You have worked hard to reach this milestone in your life … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Personal
Tagged college, first generation grad, graduation, last words, university
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DWTD: Driving with Tortilla Dough
Or as I like to call it: “Masa-gate.” From Asheville, North Carolina comes the story of a Latin American immigrant male who spent four days in jail because law enforcement officials mistook tortilla dough (known as “masa” in Spanish) for … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, News, Politics
Tagged asheville, hispanic, immigrant arrested, latin american, latino, law, masa, masa gate, north carolina, race, racism, tortilla dough
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MONDAY BLUES (05.09.11)
Antoine Dominique “Fats” Domino Jr. (New Orleans, 1928-) singing his classic tune “Blue Monday” on Austin City Limits (1986).
What is Cinco de Mayo?
If you didn’t know any better, you would agree with the idiot who recently appeared on a late night show and described Cinco de Mayo as a holiday invented in the US “to celebrate our neighbors to the South, by … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History, Personal
Tagged Chicano, chicano history, cinco de mayo, cinco de mayo history, hispanic, latino, mexican american, mexicano, racism, us history
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A Closed-Casket Country in an Open-Casket World
As I write this, there is a growing discussion of whether or not the US will release images of Osama Bin Laden’s dead body. While I’m not a security expert by any means, once the news broke that US forces … Continue reading
Osama, Obama, y un poco más
I said most of what I wanted to say about the assassination of Osama Bin Laden on Twitter tonight. First, about some of the “analysis” of the talking heads: “The innocence behind newscasters hypothesizing the end of the “war on … Continue reading
MONDAY BLUES (05.02.11)
B.B. King once said of Lightnin’ Hopkins (Texas, 1912-1982), “He didn’t put any sugar on it. He just played it.” Here is the Texas blues legend just playing “Don’t Wake Me Up.”
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Tagged guitar, lightnin hopkins, monday blues, texas blues
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