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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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100 Years of California’s Voter Initiative
I wrote an op-ed piece that is running in the local county paper, the San Bernardino Sun. In it I use the centennial of the California voter initiative (which is today, October 10th) as a platform to advocate for greater … Continue reading
Latinifornia
The US Census released the California population data from the 2010 Census today. Here are some of the more interesting figures: California’s total population is 37,253,957 About 37.6% of those people are Latino (14,013,719) Some 4.8 million Californians (13%) are … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History, Immigration, News, Politics
Tagged california, census, chicana, Chicano, hispanic, latina, latino, mexican, population, whites
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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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Support Overtime for CA Farmworkers
This is a picture of Arturo Rodriguez (UFW President); Sen. Dean Florez (D-Shafter, CA); Msgr. James Murphy (Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament); and scores of farmworkers. They are kneeling in California’s State Capitol building and praying that Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History, Immigration, Labor, News, Personal, Politics
Tagged california, farmworker, food, justice, mexican, overtime, schwarzeneggar
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California Spending
Some interesting chatter in the blogosphere today about the spending in yesterday’s primary election in California. I thought I’d connect some of the dots… Meg Whitman won the Republican nomination for Governor of California yesterday; Jerry Brown did the same … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged 2010 election, ca governor's race, california, governor, jerry brown, meg whitman, whitman spending
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Racial crisis at the University of California
If you haven’t heard the recent news from the University of California, you can read about some of it here, here, and here. This week, on March 4th, educational access activists across the state have called for a “Day of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, News
Tagged cal state, california, chicana, Chicano, educatino protests, educational equity, hate crime uc san diego, higher education, justice, latina, latino, mar 4 protests, march 4th, uc, uc protests
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Mexicans after the U.S.-Mexican War
Beginning in spring 1846, after various diplomatic, informal economic, and unofficial militaristic attempts to take and occupy part of Mexico’s northern frontier, the U.S. declared war on its southern neighbor. A decade after their politically unresolved dispute over Tejas, this … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History
Tagged Arizona, california, chicano history, conquest, guadalupe hidalgo, hispanic history, History, latino history, mexican american war, new mexico, texas, us history, us mexico war, war
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Schwarzeneggar is a dick
Guest column written by the People of the State of California. Look. Governor Head-Up-His-Butt needs to check his self-importance right now and get California a budget. Sitting back and essentially saying it is a waste of time for Democrats (who … Continue reading
Villaraigosa and the CA Gov Race
News came today from the LA Times of Antonio Villaraigosa’s decision not to run for Governor of California. If you had asked me a year ago–even a few months ago–I would have said Antonio’s run was a “sure thing.” Polling … Continue reading
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Tagged antonio villaraigosa, ca 2010, ca crisis, california, california governor's race, Chicano, election 2010, governor, hispanic, latino, los angeles, mexican, mexican american
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California’s racists are at it again
Let me say first that I don’t use the word “racist” lightly. I know it comes as a politically-loaded bomb, something deployed to most often end debate rather than encourage one, but there really is no other way to see … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, News, Politics
Tagged anti-immigration, birth tourism, ca proposition, california, Chicano, hate, hispanic, Immigration, latino, proposition, racism, taxpayer protection act
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