In 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson established Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM). The objective was to highlight Hispanic cultures and their contributions to the national landscape. HHM, in effect, was crafted as a top-down cultural policy to encourage ethnic...
By Arturo Ignacio Sanchez The packaging and marketing of the 2016 Democratic and Republican conventions has much to teach us about U.S. presidential politics and failures in public imagination. Both conventions were structured as political spectacles that delivered a...
QueensLatino is celebrating its sixth year as a community-based Spanish/English language newspaper in northwestern Queens, New York. Using a digital and print format, the paper has emerged as a critical voice for Spanish language immigrants that live and work in the...
El tema de inmigración brilló por su ausencia en el debate de este jueves en la noche entre los candidatos demócratas a la presidencia de los Estados Unidos, Hillary Clinton y Bernie Sanders. También obviaron hablar de la crisis de Puerto Rico, de los diálogos de paz...
Bernie Sanders’ New York City campaign claims that the Latino vote is an important element in their get-out-the-vote strategy and in establishing a multi-ethnic electoral coalition. If all politics are local, then one must ask: How is the campaign doing in crafting a...
Much ink and numerous digital bits has been expended, across the political spectrum, in attempting to explain the political phenomenon known as Donald Trump. Unfortunately, standard mainstream explanations miss the mark. Initially pundits and casual observers...
