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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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One had a penchant for secret wars in Central America
About 15 years ago, I was sitting around reading Catch a Fire, Timothy White’s biography of Bob Marley, when I noticed something–reggae legend Bob Marley shared a birthday with Ronald Reagan. Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 while Marley … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment
Tagged axle rose, babe ruth, bob marley, celebrity birthdays, francois truffaut, ronald reagan
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