ABSTRACT
Less frequent are the grass-roots role models, such as Raul Raymundo, a Mexican-American who heads Chicago’s Pilsen Resurrection Development Corp., a church-based nonprofit group that builds affordable homes in the Mexican-immigrant community of Pilsen. In his report, “Come the Millennium—Interviews on the Shape of Our Future,” released by the American Society of Newspaper Editors earlier this year, David Hayes-Bautista, a noted UCLA sociologist and demographer, came to the same conclusion. Virginia Escalante, a former journalism professor and former Los Angeles Times reporter, agrees that there is a difference between the economics of US mainstream and Spanish-language newspapers, but not the one Aranda sees. “There are monolingual English speakers, monolingual Spanish speakers and bilinguals, but most of the bilinguals are oral bilinguals and few of the bilinguals are sufficiently comfortable to read in the language.” Latinos are reduced to only one slice in the Anglo media, while in the Spanish media, a whole community is presented.
