It was a big night for wiseLatinas in San Jose. The words "Sonia Sotomayor" and "wise Latina" drew frequent cheers as La Raza Lawyers of Santa Clara County brought together seven trailblazing Latina lawyers for its annual dinner Friday....
October 5, 2009 By Marisol BelloRebecca Aguilar, a former television reporter, grew increasingly frustrated as she sat in her Dallas kitchen last summer watching the confirmation hearings for the first Latina Supreme Court justice. Aguilar watched senator after senator grill Judge Sonia Sotomayor about her 2001 remark that she hoped "a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences...
In response to the debate over the Sotomayor nomination, three coauthors and I tried to answer this question empirically (however, focusing on gender, not on race). A brief description of our findings is here; our working paper is here.
New Orleans interfered with last week's much anticipated update. Team of Destiny continues its domination with the points lead but is in a five way tie for first place. Hope and Change solidified itself as this year's Lay. Team of Destiny Tex 97 Seniors Blount Force Hit Ben's Phish Lay's Bitches My Name is Cray Endora's Box Senslessmurders Thew's TDs Universal Healthcare Tang's of Steele Wise...
... She had an integrity to her ideals and values that was absolutely fierce. When I think of "WiseLatinas", Mercedes Sosa is right up there on my top ten. La Maza which is the song she is singing here with Shakira, was a fixture of her repertoire and one she made popular with Sylvio Rodriguez (another fixture of my youth). The song is about the meaning of engagement: What...
... it was racism that cost us the games! Could we blame Bush, somehow? If only the IOC had more WiseLatinas!We can but now only imagine how the Chicago games would've played out. New events could've included 100-meter graft. A voter registration forgery relay race, perhaps? The shooting and running portion of the pentathlon wouldn't have to change too much, though we might replace "swimming"...