Hispanic and Latino Issues

Just Found Out I'm Half-Mexican. What Do I Do?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why do Mexicans like to play in the street?

UK's The Guardian Publishes Worst Story on Santa Ana's Political and Demographic Transformation EVER

I make it a point to read any articles about Orange County written by the national and international press, mostly for the shits and giggles that happen when they're woefully uninformed. So you can imagine the gut-laugh fest I had this morning when reading a piece about SanTana by the usually excell ... More >>

'Border Theory' Shows the Line That Blurs

Tony de los Reyes' exhibit at Grand Central Art Center brilliantly captures the never-ending U.S.-Mexico divide

Sergio O'Cadiz: El Artist

The Mexican maestro was a popular painter in Orange County for decades. Now, his family is fighting to keep his legacy alive

Why Do Mexicans Get Into So Many Bike Accidents?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And what's the history of the Mexican flag?

Why Do Gabachos Complain So Much?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why does the media only care about Mexicans when they do bad things?

The Ghosts of Jeffrey-Lynne

A vanished neighborhood holds the secrets to Anaheim's simmering discontent

Why Are Tucson School Officials Banning Mexican-American Studies?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And how can I help fight those pendejos?

Local Record Review: 'The Break of Dawn' by Taino Sunz

Beat Blvd. is Heard Mentality's weekly review of local releases. If you're an OC musician or band with something new to offer--vinyl single, full-length album, CD, cassette--we want to hear from you! Send copies, along with any photos and PR material, to Beat Blvd., c/o OC Weekly, 2975 Red Hill Ave. ... More >>

What do Mexicans Think of Ron Paul?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Plus, what's some good Mexican sci-fi?

ESPN on Why Angels Owner Arte Moreno Isn't an Aztlanista or a Vendido

​When it was announced that Arte Moreno purchased your Anaheim Angels to become the first Latino owner of a professional sports franchise, I wrote this piece for your favorite rag excoriating the expectations of local Latinos that Moreno be all Mexican-loving and down with the brown because he's L ... More >>

Are More Mexicans Becoming Conservative?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And do teachers discriminate against students with Hispanic first names?

[UPDATED: Event is TOMORROW] Theresa Cisneros and Ron Gonzales, OC Register Editors, to Sit Down With Gustavo at Fullerton Public Library Oct. 27

​Originally posted Oct. 20: We at the Weekly have very little love for the Orange County Register, not just because they're the major daily in town but for many petty battles waged upon us over the years. But I have nothing but love for editors Ron Gonzales and Theresa Cisneros, who man the paper' ... More >>

Am I Supporting the Mexican Drug Cartels If I Smoke Pot?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why don't more Mexis appear on television news talk shows?

"Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!" Returns This Month to Fullerton Public Library with Lalo Alcaraz, OC Register Reporters--and More!

​After a summer hiatus, the lecture series (unfortunately titled "Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!"--not my choice) I host at the Fullerton Public Library in conjunction with Cal State Fullerton's Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies (where I lecture) returns next week on Sept. 29 with a vis ... More >>

When East Los Meets Tokyo: Chicano Rap and Lowrider Culture in Japan

​ Earthquakes aren't the only thing that California and Japan have in common. For years Japanese youth have adopted and emulated lowrider culture and Chicano Rap as their own. This peculiar phenomenon attracted a promotional tour to Japan in 2006 by Always Running author Luis J. Rodriguez who brou ... More >>

Why Shouldn't Mexicans Speak Proper Spanish?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Is Spanglish something to celebrate?

Authors of Book on Mexican-American Baseball in Los Angeles Looking to Author One About OC Peloteros

​The Arcadia series of history books are always hit-and-miss affairs, with amateur historians authoring books on their home regions while excluding that with which they're not familiar. It's no surprise then, that most of the Arcadia books on Orange County don't bother with subaltern histories and ... More >>

Is It Crazy to Shop in Juarez?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Plus, is the chupacabra Mexican?

2010 Census Doesn't Care About OC White People

​The Mexican earlier riffed on the 2010 U.S. Census and African Americans in Orange County. As he mentioned, the number of white people is down here, but the number of people overall is up. The number of brown people is up countywide but down in Santa Ana (which would still have enough Latinos to ... More >>

Reading of Award-Winning Play The Mexican O.C. TOMORROW at Hunt Fullerton Library

​Back in 2006, the brand-new Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble took OC's play-loving world by storm with its debut production: The Mexican O.C., a play produced from hundreds of hours of interviews with titans in Orange County's Latino community whom the regular history books had long overloo ... More >>

Thank 7-Eleven for Chicano Music Heaven?

7-Eleven: A one-stop shop for all your Chicano music needs!​Record stores in OC have been in decline this past decade. Tower Records is long gone and the block of the Virgin Megastore in Orange is a fleeting memory--but it's still forever captured in the Sasha Baren Cohen movie Borat. In ... More >>

Lalo Alcaraz at the Fullerton Public Library Tells of Mickey Mouse Flipping Off Roy Disney!

​Over 60 people went to the Fullerton Public Library last night to hear Lalo Alcaraz, the great cartoonist and occasional Weekly contributor. Instead of his usual act--a lecture in which he flips through some of his favorite editorial cartoons and offers one-liners--I proposed something a bit more ... More >>

Lalo Alcaraz to Sit Down with Gustavo This Thursday at the Fullerton Public Library

​Lalo Alcaraz, the mad genius behind the La Cucaracha comic strip, the genius Obama-as-Zapata political cartoon, and too many other to mention, will grace this fair county this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Fullerton Public Library. But it won't be his usual desmadre--joining him in the Hispanderin ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Latino Study: Likely to Vote Democrat, Low Voter MotivationComment by CRANKITUP: Take a close look at the picture in the headline. Is that what you want California to look like. Btw anyone who tells you that illegals are unable to vote in this election are lying through their teeth it's ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Sons Subdue Father Accused of Trying to Kill their MotherComment by MICHAEL BOLTON: PAPI ESTAN LOCO!!!!Comment by LINDAV92683: Notice the double last name (Jesus Beltran Millan), that's a sure bet that he's illegal.

Chicano Batman: Dark Caballeros

Attacking pop culture from sonic margins

Will Meg Whitman's Stands Against Prop. 187 and Arizona's SB 1070 Chill Her Likely Voters?

​We told you here how California Democrats are hopeful the marijuana-legalization initiative will help the ticket in November despite the party's gubernatorial nominee coming out against it.Republicans are hopeful the anti-immigration fervor does the same for their ticket despite the party's guber ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Reign of Terror Becomes Arizona State Policy, Thanks to State Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer

Law-Enforcement Claims Historic Chicano Mural in Orange Sensationalizes Gangs-30 Years Later

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Kicking Aztlán

Why Do People Have a Problem With OC-Raised USC QB Mark Sanchez Being Proud of His Mexican Heritage?

[Summer Guide] Lisa Alvarez's Summer Reading List

[¡Ask a Mexican!®] 'Mexicans Are Dirty Gangbangers Who Spray Graffiti Everywhere'

Ay, Grandmami

Alexandros

Humberto Caspa's New Book Chronicles the Fear and Loathing of Mexicans in Costa Mesa

!Ask a Mexican!(r)

Special back-to-school edicion

Register Readers Choking on Latino-Takeover Predictions

Brian Joseph, the Register's Sacramento reporter, has an online story detailing predictions that "Hispanics will become Orange County's ethnic majority seven years earlier than previously projected, according to new state figures released Monday." Joseph says Hispanics will become the majority in OC ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican! Web Especial

The great !Ask a Mexican! naming debate

Censorship by Chicanos at Chapman?

While the well-moneyed, Republican-friendly overlords of Chapman University celebrate the school's new film studios, trouble is a-brewin' at my alma mater. Last Monday, the school held a faculty-led panel discussion on free speech and civility after African-American and Latino students complained ab ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!

Why do Mexicans steal fruit?

!Caliente! !Caliente! !Caliente!

Ranking the new Latino glossies

Tom Fuentes,

An open letter to the former GOP chairman, current college trustee, forever self-destroyer

Repatriate Act

Joe Dunn fights for Mexicans, gets an ass

Kike on the Mic!

Hip Hop Hoodios? Jew betcha!

Their Charming Man

Dispatches from the Latino Morrissey love-in

One Gigante Mess

How a multibillion-dollar corporation played the victim and got its liquor license

Let Them Eat Pastel

Gigante markets its market

Counter Culture

Census officials join with OCs street vendors to count Latinos

The Mexican No-Show Show

Bob Dornan, the Times and an 18-Vote 'Scandal'