People rally for immigrant rights in Los Angeles in 2019 on the 25th anniversary of Proposition 187. Civil rights activist Bert Corona fought against the use of “illegal alien.” For Corona, the legendary civil rights activist confronted people and institutions that used “illegal alien” to argue that their choice of words was no better than anti-Latino insults of yore like …
When Leobardo Estrada was growing up in Texas in the 1950s, he and his family called themselves Latin-Americans. “I felt like I was traveling around the country with a box full of ethnic labels,” Estrada said. “I kept crossing out the ethnic terms in my speech and replacing Hispanic, Latino or Chicano with the appropriate term for each audience.” Estrada, …
