Blogante Headlines for Sunday - September 23rd, 2007

I am having major internet connectivity problems that I hope will be resolved by Monday afternoon so posting is slightly thin only 51 posts today plus I had wanted to write about my experience at MTV Tr3s’ taping of an immigration forum at the University of California’s LA campus and I had an interesting press release about the fact that the University of Iowa now has admission’s pages in Spanish. Guess it will just have to wait until later. Lots of press on Cane today - Gracias, Tomás

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Black/Latino Violence? Scholars find no clear trend

Hispanic parents are frustrated because children won’t learn Spanish - South Florida

Cuban-Americans have a special interest in new CBS series ‘Cane’

Is American TV ready to tune in Latino culture? - Cane

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‘How I Learned English: 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life,’

History, heritage at heart - Retiring AFL-CIO official Chavez-Thompson decries ‘us-and-them’ views on immigration, seeks further progress for women, Latinos

Kenneth I. Trujillo expected to be first Latino on school panel - Philadelphia

Bush holds the record on Hispanic federal judges

Marketers miss much of their audience

Universities recruit Hispanics earlier, aggressively - in Tennessee

Hispanics find growing enmity - Immigrants now targets of racial slurs and taunts - North Carolina

Latino WWII vets ‘don’t deserve this’

Were Latinos right in putting Burns in the hot seat?

The choice of how to describe immigrants is vital - This is the second of two columns by Edward Schumacher-Matos, who is reviewing Miami Herald coverage of immigration issues.

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Just under 7 percent of the nation’s approximately 1,300 federal judges are Hispanic.

Rita Moreno is one of only a handful of performers who have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy

In the blogosphere, some Cubans are already criticizing the show (Cane) for its casting, composed mostly of Puerto Rican actors such as Smits and Rita Moreno. Nestor Carbonell, who was recently featured on ABC’s ““Lost,’’ is the only Cuban in the main cast.

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“There’s this notion that if you come from a Spanish background, you don’t need Spanish as a foreign language at school,” said Martinez. “Many Hispanic kids aren’t learning Spanish diction, language, grammar and verb conjugation.”

“Where you’re really seeing the growth is the acculturated bilingual that’s comfortable with their heritage and their language, who chooses on a case-by-case basis whether to partake of something in English or Spanish,” says Miguel Ferrer, editorial director at AOL Latino.

““We’re the final frontier in all areas, people whose stories haven’t been heard,’’ says Alex Nogales, president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition. ““Everybody wants a piece of us, but they don’t know how to dance with us. We’re good business.’’

”In South Florida, you can’t assume to know the legal status of someone, so we need a term that covers all the bases,” Anders Gyllenhaal, the executive editor, told me, noting the dense mix of asylum cases, Cuban privileges, visas and violations.

Election 2008 –» view: excerpts | section

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