365 Days of Latino Heritage

Latino Heritage Month has been commodified and commercialized with the real meaning behind heritage and history lost in a push to make Latinos spend and make us a brand. We are not a brand. We are not a marketing demographic. We are a complex mescla of people, culturas y lenguas.

Originally this started as a project for Latino Heritage Month, 2009 pero because our lives as Latinos, Latin Americans and the other names we respond to in our hearts are live every day, this is 365 days of Latino heritage.

Compiled and Curated
By Maegan la Mamita Mala Ortiz of VivirLatino
randomsleep:

thinkmexican:

Friends of Ramses Barron mourn his death outside his Nogales, Mexico home January 6, 2011. Barron was shot and killed by U.S. Border Patrol earlier this week after allegedly throwing rocks at officers.
Photo: Reuters 

If this was the other way around it would be an act of war. 

randomsleep:

thinkmexican:

Friends of Ramses Barron mourn his death outside his Nogales, Mexico home January 6, 2011. Barron was shot and killed by U.S. Border Patrol earlier this week after allegedly throwing rocks at officers.

Photo: Reuters 

If this was the other way around it would be an act of war. 

(via mijajaja)

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