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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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Latinos & Presidential Shootings
Regular readers of Latino Like Me might remember an earlier post on JFK’s last night alive. In it I discuss how the night before he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, the President spent the evening at an event hosted by … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics
Tagged assassination, hispanics, History, jfk, kennedy, latinos, mexican americans, presidential shootings, reagan, ronald reagan, violence
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Monday Blues
Elvis Presley (born in Mississippi, 1935-1977), performing “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” by Lloyd Price and “Baby What Do You Want Me To Do” by Jimmy Reed (1968).
Posted in Education, Entertainment, History, Personal
Tagged blues, elvis, History, jimmy reed, lloyd price, long live the king, monday blues, rock and roll, the king
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Cosmopolitan San Francisco in 1855
Beginning in 1849, the lure of gold made San Francisco into an “instant city,” and a cosmopolitan one at that, with more than half of its population born somewhere other than the United States. This quality almost certainly added to … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History
Tagged gold rush, History, multiculturalism, race, race classification, racial fitness, san francisco
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Live Aid (25 years ago today)
On July 13, 1985, perhaps the largest concert event of my lifetime took place. Live Aid was a benefit concert for sub-Saharan African relief, a single day comprised of two concerts–one in London’s Wembley Stadium and Philadelphia’s JFK. Born in … Continue reading
Strange Coincidences in History
It has occurred to me that this past Sunday was another strange pop cultural event in the world. Ronnie James Dio died on May 16, 2010, on the exact 20 year anniversary of the passing of Sammy Davis Jr. On … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, History, Obituary
Tagged coincidences, elvis presley, Entertainment, History, nusrat fateh ali khan, ronnie james dio, sammy davis jr.
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Trivial Presidential Trivia
The life of an untenured professor is a busy one, not to mention rarely free from the relentless pressure that you should be doing something “productive” with your time. For this Chicano, that means doing things other than updating this … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, History
Tagged History, history trivia, presidential history, presidential trivia, us history, us presidency, us presidents
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The US is afraid of Cuba
One of the hopes many people had with the election of Barack Obama was some improvement in the diplomatic relations between the US and Latin America. The past thirty years have been among the worst of the previous century with … Continue reading
Posted in History, News, Politics
Tagged cold war, communism, communist, cuba, cuba threat, hispanic, History, latin america, latino, obama, terrorism, terrorist threat
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Columbus sucked.
Today is October 12th, which is many things in different parts of the world (Día de la Raza in Mexico) but in the U.S. is officially “Columbus Day.” I wasn’t going to write anything about the holiday since, I figured, … Continue reading
Anne Frank Video
This video–only recently posted on YouTube–is the only known video footage of Anne Frank. It is film of the wedding day of Anne’s neighbor, July 22, 1941. You can read a bit more about it here. Is there anybody born … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged amsterdam, anne frank, anne frank film, anne frank video, historical film, historical video, History, holocaust, video, WWII
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