Hispanic and Latino American women in journalism

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Hispanic and Latino women in America have been involved in journalism for years, using their multilingual skills to reach across cultures and spread news throughout the 19th century until the common era. Hispanic presses provided information important to the Hispanic and Latin American communities and helped to foster and preserve the cultural values that remain today. These presses also "promoted education, provided special-interest columns, and often founded magazines, publishing houses, and bookstores to disseminate the ideas of local and external writers."[1]

Early 20th century

During the early twentieth century several women along the Texas-Mexican border in

civil rights of Mexicans and disdain for then dictator, Porfirio Díaz
, through their writing in Hispanic newspapers.

Leonor Villegas de Magnón, began to write for covert revolutionary publications.[5] Villegas "rejected both the ideals of the aristocratic class and the traditional role assigned to women in Mexican society."[6] After moving to Laredo, she began to write for a local newspaper and became a member of Junta Revolutionaria. Villegras and Idar both worked together in La Cruz Blanca, a small organization that helped wounded soldiers which Villegras founded and financed.[5] As a result, Villegas wrote about the experiences of the nurses and people of Juárez in The Rebel, which was not published until 1994 by Arte Público Press
.

Sara Estela Ramírez was an educator who joined

egalitarian society.[10]

1960-1980

Later, during the Chicano Movement, feminist Anna Nieto-Gómez helped to found a student Chicana newspaper,[11] Hijas de Cuauhtémoc,[1] at California State University in Long Beach and "called for a critical view of sexism, citing its presence in Chicano families, in communities, and within the male-dominated Chicano movement."[12] Through Nieto-Gómez's writing she pointed out what she called "maternal chauvinism" and her views about women and stereotypes about them in the Chicano culture.[13] During this period Francisca Flores, another women's rights activist, began writing for La Luz Magazine and Mas Grafíca. Like Nieto-Gómez, Flores found certain elements of the Chicano movement to be sexist and supported rights for Chicano women.[1] Chicano women refers to the women of Mexican descent who are born and/or raised in the United States. Chicano embraced long history and engaged a lot in the political activist history. They always try to fight the gender inequalities that exist within or outside their identity. With this being said, they are sometimes being discriminated against.[14] Flores wrote about her opinions on women's rights in her own magazine, Regeneración and founded the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional.

1980-2010

In 1982, while writing for the

guerrilla sympathizers.[15] Guillermoprieto would go on to write for Newsweek and The New Yorker
, reporting on subjects in South America.

Marie Arana (born in Lima, Peru, and educated in the U.S.) joined The Washington Post in 1992. She became deputy editor of "Book World" in 1993 and editor in chief of the section in 1999. She also wrote feature pieces on books, Hispanics, and diversity for other sections of the newspaper, including the front page. She retired from editor of "Book World" to become The Washington Post's writer at large in 2009. She has written a series of op-ed columns on Latin America for The New York Times.

  • On September 26, 2020, Marie Arana participated in a 39-minute film titled, Reinventing the Festival: National Book Festival 2020Summary: To talk about the ways this book festival and so many others are having to reimagine themselves in the age of COVID-19 and the virtual world, Marie Arana (literary director of the Library of Congress and the National Book Festival) joins Peter Florence (founder of the Hay Festival), Cristina Fuentes La Roche (executive director of the Hay Festival), Mitchell Kaplan (co-founder of the Miami Book Fair) and Lois Kim (executive director of the Texas Book Festival).[16]

In the early 1990s

Lambda Literary Award
for her story.

Presence in journalism

Most common journalists are White and for the Hispanic or Latino, it is (12.6%) and for the asian it is 9.6% and for the Black or African American it is (6.4%).And there are 6407 journalists currently in United States[18] Many Black Americans say Black journalists are better at understanding them and covering issues related to race. And they think they can contribute a lot to the society.[19]

See also

References

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  2. ^ Handbook of Texas Online - Idar, Jovita. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fid03. Retrieved on July 28, 2011.
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  5. ^ a b "Great Texas Women". Austin: University of Texas. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
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  7. ^ Association, Texas State Historical. "Ramirez, Sara Estela". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
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  9. ^ Johnson, K. (April 26, 2010). Adventures in feministory: Sara Estela Ramírez. Bitch, Retrieved from http://bitchmagazine.org/post/adventures-in-feministory-sara-estela-ram%C3%ADrez
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  11. ^ "Hijas de Cuauhtémoc", Wikipedia, 2023-09-17, retrieved 2023-12-04
  12. ISBN 978-0-292-71907-1
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  14. ^ "Chicana Feminism – Postcolonial Studies". scholarblogs.emory.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  15. ^ "The O.A.S. to Reopen Inquiry Into Massacre in El Salvador in 1981". New York Times. New York. 2005. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  16. ^ "Reinventing the Festival: National Book Festival 2020". Library of Congress. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  17. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes Explanatory Reporting". New York: Columbia University. 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  18. ^ "Journalist Demographics and Statistics [2023]: Number Of Journalists In The US". www.zippia.com. 2021-01-29. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  19. ^ Center, Pew Research (2023-09-26). "Black Americans' Experiences With News". Pew Research Center's Journalism Project. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
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