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Beginning around 1990, the demographic landscape of the Los Angeles area changed dramatically, with an infusion of immigrants from Mexico and Central America. But historian Jorge Leal says its impact on the neighborhoods of the Los Angeles area has never been charted in earnest.
With his recently published research, Leal has taken a furtive step into documenting the Latinx community’s emerging L.A. footprint, using an unconventional source. If you want to know about the Latinx community’s presence in L.A. over the past 30 years, Leal says to follow the music posters.
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Flames and smoke rise after Israeli air strikes in the southern Gaza Strip May 11, 2021 [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]
In 1984, Palestinian American intellectual and Columbia University Professor Edward Said famously argued that Palestinians are denied “permission to narrate”.
More than 30 years later, in 2020, Maha Nassar, a Palestinian American Associate Professor at the University of Arizona, analysed opinion articles published in two daily newspapers – The New York Times and The Washington Post – and two weekly news magazines – The New Republic and The Nation – over a 50-year period, from 1970 to 2019. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she found that “Editorial boards and columnists seem to have been quite consumed with talking about the Palestinians, often in condescending and even racist ways – yet they somehow did not feel the need to hear much from Palestinians themselves.”
American website removes event featuring terrorist Leila Khaled
Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled.
Eventbrite, an American website for the organizations of events, has decided to remove an event featuring Leila Khaled, a member of the terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (FPLP), from its platform for violating its terms of service.
The zoom webinar is being co-sponsored by San Francisco State University’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED), as well as the University of California Humanities Research Institute. It was due to be hosted by UC Merced’s Zoom account and moderated by UC Merced professor Sean Malloy.