When it comes to portrayals, on the big screen or the stage, of the Latino migrant experience, most stories focus on the journey, on the actual border experience and the abuses many migrants…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:36AMEminent domain, as defined by Cornell Law School, is “the power of the government to take private property and convert it into public use.” In other words, your property is yours until t…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:26AMIf boxing is a metaphor for life, as many scribes, boxing fans, and websites proclaim (just type “boxing as a metaphor for life” and you’ll find over 1.5 million results alone), then f…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:52PMConsidered a precursor to magical realism (Gabriel García Márquez claims that reading it gave him the key to mapping out the story for One Hundred Years of Solitude), Juan Rulfo’s 1955 n…
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