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Forgotten Latino History

@LatinoHeros

Oct 21

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How did segregation on buses work? Colored people normally had to sit in the back, but if the bus was full, whites got the seats in the back and colored people had to stand. This Mexican woman was a white lady that "never had any problems".
via @YouTube

A common complaint "Lah-tee-nos" make is that the white-black story of segregation and civil rights ignores them. No, it does not! The way to be inclusive is to explain to Latino children that they are part of the white-black story.

"Latinos" were here in the Jim Crow era, but they were on the white side of the color line.

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Forgotten Latino History

@LatinoHeros

Sep 26

The series "A League of their own" is stirring up discussion of "Latinos" and race in the Jim Crow era. The AAGPBL was racially segregated - but had Latin American players. Some are starting to explain that by claiming that they were "white-passing".
autostraddle.com/a-league-of-th…

https://twitter.com/AnonRobot001622/status/1569045273388929024

The use of the term "white-passing" to describe white people from Latin countries is problematic. It pretends that they were POC who pretended to be white. In the 40s, Latin Americans were normally considered white. They didn't have to "pass" for anything.

https://twitter.com/AnonRobot001622/status/1569045273388929024

The history of "passing for white" in the U.S is Black-American history and actually has nothing to do with "Latinos". Claiming that "Latin" people were passing for white serves to mask the inherent white privileges that they had at the time.

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Forgotten Latino History

@LatinoHeros

Jul 30

After the 2014 book "Making Hispanics", more people are finally starting to acknowledge that this happened. But it's too often reduced to a story about choosing a term. "Hispanic" wasn't a semantic change, it was inventing a NEW minority group in the 80s.
history.com/news/hispanic-…

Political groups just arbitrarily decided one day that Mexicans and everybody who speaks Spanish were a separate minority group apart from whites and blacks. It was considered a ridiculous concept when it was introduced and took 20 years to normalize.

It wasn't a different choice of words like the difference between "black/colored/negro/African-American". It never crossed anybody's mind that Spanish speakers were a separate minority group before the invention of the "hispanic".

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Forgotten Latino History

@LatinoHeros

Jul 18

#HuelgaSchool
When desegregation happened, white students were bussed to black schools and vice versa. Here's a story about Anglo-American white kids who were being bussed to Pinkston high-school in Dallas.

When Mexican kids started to be bussed to black schools as white - they broke out in protest, boycotted integration, and put their kids in homeschools (so -called "freedom schools").
nytimes.com/1970/09/06/arc…

The Huelga School story alleged that only Mexicans were being bussed to black schools, and not Anglos. They claim Mexicans were being specifically targeted for integration with blacks. That was never true. Anglos were bussed to black schools as well.

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Forgotten Latino History

@LatinoHeros

Jun 13

To understand American history, you have to understand that concepts of race/ethnicity are fundamentally different. So much so, that today is a twilight zone compared to the 50s/60s. We think of minorities today as "blacks and latinos", but that idea did not historically exist.

This is evidenced by the fact that the older generations of black people, who grew up during segregation, regarded people of Spanish/Latin origin as white. I found several historical examples of this.

In the 40s a Mexican girl, Karla Galarza, wanted to take a dress making class at a black school in Washington DC. The black faculty later asked her to leave and transfer to another school because she was white.
forgottenlatinohistory.blogspot.com/2021/08/mexica…

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Forgotten Latino History

@LatinoHeros

Jun 10

Latinx revisionists are also inventing "integration" in Texas. In this oral history the interviewer asks Olga Gonzales if her high school was integrated - and she explains "No" it was not - black children couldn't go.

Roy Miller High School in Corpus Christi was a segregated WHITE high school that was whites only. Mexicans could attend because THEY WERE WHITE. That was not "integration". Just like Polish children in Texas went to white schools.

The interviewer does not understand this, and follows up saying "Ohh so it was integrated for whites and hispanics, but not for blacks". NO! It was not integrated. Mexicans were never legally segregated, they could go to white schools because they were white.