{"id":318,"date":"2006-04-10T08:38:33","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T16:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=318"},"modified":"2006-04-10T08:38:41","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T16:38:41","slug":"latino-la-transformations-communities-and-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/04\/10\/latino-la-transformations-communities-and-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Latino LA: Transformations, Communities, and Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_04_10_latinola.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_04_10_uprising.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><em>GUESTS: Gilda L. Ochoa, and Enrique C. Ochoa, editors of &#8220;Latino LA: Transformations, Communities, and Activism&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=35% src=\"http:\/\/a1204.g.akamai.net\/7\/1204\/1401\/06013114011\/images.barnesandnoble.com\/images\/10750000\/10751456.jpg\" alt=\"Latino LA\" \/>As Congress debates immigration policies, communities throughout the US are continuing to rise up for immigrant rights. These unanticipated mass demonstrations are one measure of the potential power of an emerging demographic in the US. Here in Southern California, Latinos are ubiquitous. Forty five percent of LA County residents are Latino, making it the largest racial group in the region. Nearly three fourths of this population is of Mexican origin. The mainstream media conversation on the mostly Latino immigrants, has revolved around racist backlash among some segments of the American public, as well as in the halls of Congress. But the broader framework of historical and contemporary dynamics in Latin America is rarely discussed. A new anthology edited by my guests, Gilda L. Ochoa, and Enrique C. Ochoa, explores this larger context. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called Latino LA: Transformations, Communities, and Activism. The book combines historical perspectives with analyses of power and inequality to help us understand how Latinos are responding to exclusionary immigration, labor, and education. It goes on to show that despite institutional pressures, Latinos are actively creating communities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUESTS: Gilda L. Ochoa, and Enrique C. Ochoa, editors of &#8220;Latino LA: Transformations, Communities, and Activism&#8221; As Congress debates immigration policies, communities throughout the US are continuing to rise up for immigrant rights. These unanticipated mass demonstrations are one measure of the potential power of an emerging demographic in the US. Here in Southern California, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}