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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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Latino History Month #3
We’ve been discussing Puerto Rico for the past week in my Chicano/Latino Histories class so perhaps it’s a good time for us here at LatinoLikeMe to do the same. In 1898, as a result of a war with Spain, the … Continue reading
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Tagged boricua, caribbean, chicana, Chicano, colonialism, hispanic, latina, latino, puerto rico, puertoriquenas, puertoriquenos, us history
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Latino Heritage Month: Miguel Piñero
Miguel Piñero (1946-1988) entered this world in the belly of U.S. empire, the island of Puerto Rico. Like almost half of the island’s population, he and his family migrated to New York in the 1950s, settling in the urban jungle … Continue reading
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Tagged boricua, latino, lower east side, miguel pinero, new york, nuyorican, nuyorican poets cafe, pinero, poetry, puerto rico, puertoriquenos, short eyes
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