Bachata! The Immigration Story of an Increasingly Popular Dominican Genre
Bachata is one of my friend Maya’s favorite guilty pleasures. She and I turn up the volume when it comes on the radio, we listen to it when we’re getting […]
Category Archives: History
Eugenics and Immigration: Are you fit for the United States?
Most people are aware of the exclusion acts that prevented or limited people of certain ethnicities and races from coming into the United States. Sometimes these exclusionary acts were blatant […]
Borderless Love and Multiethnic Identity
I grew up believing that marrying outside of one’s race was no big thing. My dad is from Peru and my mom is from Oklahoma, and there’s never seemed to […]
Tenga Un Nice Day
It may be a slow process, and it may be met with criticism along the way, but believe it or not, languages evolve. When was the last time someone corrected […]
Immigration Talk 