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Decolonize "Hispanic Heritage Month" or Get Rid of It

"We have leaders who want to use the people because almost 70 percent of this population is of Mexican heritage, yet you never hear the word Mexican," said Rudy Acuña, historian and Professor Emeritus of Chicano Studies at California State University, Northridge. "Independence has become a Hispanic holiday when we fought against the Spaniards. This [Hispanic Heritage Month] is full of contradictions."

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/37651-decolonize-hispanic-heritage-month-or-get-rid-of-it

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