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Yalitza Aparicio’s Success After ‘Roma’ Exposes Mexico’s Ugly Truth of Anti-Indigenous Bigotry

Jorge Cotte — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 02:00:32 +0000

On February 24, 2019, at the Oscars ceremony, Yalitza Aparicio’s name will be read along with four others as nominees for Best Actress. As an Oaxacan of Mixtec and Triqui heritage, Aparicio will join Keisha Castle-Hughes as the only indigenous women nominated for a Best Lead Actress Academy Award. Since starring in Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma,

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Are ‘Roma’s Oscar Nominations a Win for Diversity or a Different Shade of Whiteness in Hollywood?

Jorge Cotte — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:31:42 +0000

Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma is about Cleo, a fictionalized version of Libo Rodgriguez, the indigenous woman who raised him and his siblings. The film is about the woman who served Cuarón breakfast, walked him to school, put him to bed, and catalyzed his love of movies. It is, as his sister Cristina attests, a form of

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George Lopez and the Slippery Slope of Social Satire

Jorge Cotte — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 23:32:16 +0000

On February 7th, video taken at George Lopez’s stand-up show at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix found its way to TMZ and then all over the internet. In it, the comedian is heard cracking a racially-charged joke about Latino families: “There’s still two rules in the f*cking Latino family,” he says. “Don’t marry somebody black,

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OPINION: Latinx Representation in a Trump Cabinet Would Be Nothing But a Ruse of Progress

Jorge Cotte — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:50:28 +0000

Donald Trump’s presidential administration will not have a Latinx in the cabinet for the first time since 1988 – an exclusion that has been the subject of much hand wringing in the press and amongst prominent Latinx leaders. But this administration, fueled on an empowered white nationalist movement, is operating beyond the reach of our

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