A Cuban Journalist Adjusts to Service-Sector Precarity in North Texas
My life as an immigrant is summarized as paying for a car to go to work and working to pay for that car.
Essay
Fragile Evidence
Bearing witness to stories about the death penalty in Texas.
On the Coronavirus, Loss, and My Mom’s Tacos
My mom’s cooking offered comfort as my dad battled COVID-19.
What the Black Lives Matter Protests Mean for East Texas
Protests where I grew up–where lynchings and KKK marches have occurred in my lifetime–could signal a shift in the region long plagued by racial terror.
The 10 Best Observer Stories of 2016: ‘The New Migrants’
In the harsh post-2008 economy, builders like my father live on the road.
David Bowie in Aztlán
Forty years ago, Chicano students in Crystal City created a Bowie-inspired rock opera.
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The 66 Percent: Erasing Mexican Americans in the United States
Why aren’t we going past wanting to educate MexAm children to have ordinary pride in who they are and where they’ve come from?
Texas’ Strange Brand of Cool
Revisiting 'Paris, Texas' — the film that made nowhere hip.
The New Migrants
In the harsh post-2008 economy, builders like my father live on the road.