Submit an opinion article about an important political, economic or social issue affecting the United States or México, or Mexican and Latinos in the United States, and hear how other students respond.
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JaiMalano-Ayers
As I look back over history and where we are today, I am left in aw.
Oh how I have prayed that this day would come, and now that it has, I can exhale and let go of something’s that I don’t have to hold so tightly to anymore...now I can just remember them.
I can let go of...
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JaiMalano-Ayers
When it comes to Barack Obama and Rev. Al Sharpton’s opinions on racism, many would agree that they are polar opposites. In fact, some would even go so far as to say that they aren’t even fighting for the same things.
I disagree. I think that they...
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StudentVoices
The Hunting Party is inspired by the true story of a disgraces war journalist who enlisted the help of his former cameraman and an eager...journalism major to track down an infamous war criminal still on the loose somewhere in the backwoods of Eastern Europe.
What begins as an...
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HumbertoGonzalez
Hey guys! Well, once again has Student Voices lived up to its purpose! Last May 25 th , Student Voices held another panel in which students from Mexico and the United States got to speak their minds on topics of concern. This time,...
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DanielaPerdomo
As I stare out from my hotel room in Los Angeles, I see a landscape of cool concrete, pinned down by palm trees. The sun seems to hang perennially high, and I think there is some kind of force, centrifugal perhaps, that buzzes about the city—even as I look out the window at 4 a.m. It may be...
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DanielaPerdomo
“Y volando, volando, volando, deslizo, me encuentro más alto, más alto que el sol. Y me extraña el mundo de un paso tan lejos de mí, una música dulce cantada sólo para mí…” A quick silence. Then the boom of the...
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Ana LuciaBuckman
I was born in Mexico but I have spent the majority of my life in the United States. My parents brought me here when I was only a baby and although we would make frequent trips back to visit we would normally only stay for short periods of time.
In the United States, we tended to...
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DanielaPerdomo
My freshman year in college, I learned that the American government, for its U.S. Census purposes, invented the classification “Hispanic” to define all those who have familial roots in Latin America.
I, for one, was born in the United States to Guatemalan parents of European...
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DanGrant
Returning to the US after living in Mexico for four months was much harder than I anticipated. I had heard about “reverse culture shock” and read all the brochures my university gave me, but nothing prepared me for what hit me the hardest when I returned: the racism and...
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