The Weatherspoon Art Museum presents TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, an exhibition that showcases the work of forty Latin American and Latino artists and demonstrates how, despite their differences, they commonly explore questions of identity through their own cultures and life experiences.
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Impremedia partnership to publish Oscar de La Hoya biography.
Rayo and impreMedia have agreed to join forces to promote one of the most-talked about memoirs of the year, the much anticipated Oscar De La Hoya penned autobiography, Un Sueño Americano (on-sale June 10th).
Distinct Ethnic & Political Identity for Mexican Americans.
Mexican Americans identify with their ethnic culture, and ethnic identification remains strong across generations, according to a report released by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. The report — based on the study and book titled “Generations of Exclusions: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race” (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) — concluded that ethnic assimilation among Mexican Americans is slow. The results, which are drawn from a longitudinal and intergenerational research study that updates “The Mexican American People” (1970), measured various markers of assimilation over a nearly 40-year time span.
U.S. Graduating College Seniors concerned about Job Prospects.
More than two-thirds of students graduating from college in the United States this year say that concerns about an uncertain economy will affect their job prospects, according to a study released by Accenture.
Jack Hobbs – HispanicAd.com ‘Media Executive Of The Year’.
Jack Hobbs – Executive Vice President, Director of Corporate Sales for Univision Radio was honored by his peers in receiving the 2007 HispanicAd.com ‘Media Executive of the Year’ award at the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies bi-annual conference in San Antonio, Texas on Thursday April 17, 2008.
