Dr. Cintli speaks with Teka Lo about journalism, the LA Sheriff, Ruben Salazar, Biden/Harris, Alex Padilla, and Maiz

Published: Dec. 23, 2020, 1:51 p.m.

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Public Intellectuals\\u2019 editor Teka Lo speaks with Dr. Cintli about Los Angeles Journalism, the Los Angeles Sheriff, Rub\\xe9n Salazar, Biden/Harris, Alex Padilla, both houses of Congress voting to authorize the creation of the National Museum of the American Latino, and the Chicano, Native, and African American story that begins before the ships.

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Roberto Cintli Rodr\\xedguez, Ph.D. (Dr. Cintli) is an associate professor in the Mexican American Studies Department at the University of Arizona. He is a longtime-award-winning journalist/columnist who received his Ph.D. in Mass Communications in 2008 at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of Justice: A Question of Race, a book that chronicles his two police brutality trials, and the co-producer, with Patrisia Gonzales of \\u201cAmoxtli San Ce Tojuan,\\u201d a documentary on origins and migrations. His \\u201cOur Sacred Ma\\xedz is Our Mother\\u201d (University of Arizona Press, 2014) advances the thesis that Mexican/Central American peoples were not created in 1848 (war) or invasion (1519) but rather with the creation of Ma\\xedz some 7,000 years ago. He recently completed \\u201cYolqui: A warrior summonsed from the spirit world\\u201d (University of Arizona Press, 2019) on violence against the Black-Brown-Indigenous communities of the United States.
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\\nIn 2013, a major digitized collection was inaugurated by the University Arizona Libraries, based on a class he created: The History of Red-Brown Journalism.

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