Quote of the Week

The message is very clear: when Mexican Americans and blacks are allowed or permitted in Hollywood and other media, they are present mainly to do the bidding of the ruling whites. When Mexican and African American characters are not around, it is because the whites can do without them, which occurs during most of the movie. Some readers may take offense at my bald interpretation of Hollywood’s celluloid reality, but, unfortunately, that is the reality that every person who sees this film, young or old, is invited to absorb.
--Marco Portales, Latino Sun, Rising: Our Spanish-Speaking U.S. World, about the 1956 movie Giant