Portside

A history of five families in El Paso reveals the city’s significance as a bellwether of America’s immigration policy.

Artists in New York City are using their art to strengthen the Mexican community in the face of federal immigration raids.

The diverse Latine experience, shaped by factors like immigration status, race, and class, is too often oversimplified—both by outsiders and within our own communities

The raids have triggered outrage and cries of voter suppression in a state with a long history of discrimination against citizens of Mexican descent, which helped give rise to LULAC, founded in 1929.

One film can’t do it all, but I can’t help feeling that the retelling of this story, as it stands, is a missed opportunity.

Martha Menchca’s new book examines events that have shaped the lives of so many in the Lone Star State.

‘He told our stories,’ actor Edward James Olmos says of the Chicago writer of corridos some called the ‘Chicano Woody Guthrie.’

In the postwar-Cold War period U.S. corporations used anti-communist hysteria to attack the labor movement. Salt of the Earth - tells the story of heroic Mexican American mineworkers, and the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.

In Chicago, Mexican workers formed the ranks of a proletariat that drew from these historical experiences and contemporary events in Mexico, moving into left politics and communist-led U.S. labor unions during the years of the Great Depression.