Latino arts, history and culture
Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez, author and lifelong champion for the rights of Latinos in the United States and oppressed people worldwide passed away on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 in San Francisco, … [Read more...]
Gina Macias: A Latina Helping to Feed Texans On a clear day on April 9th of last year, 10,000 cars filled several lanes of a San Antonio highway leading to Traders Village where the San Antonio … [Read more...]
Betita Martinez is a social activist and author who published 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures in 1994. The book is a compilation of graphics and photos that chronicles Chicano history from … [Read more...]
Dr. Mario Longoria: Latinos in American Football I recently read an excellent review of a new book by Mario Longoria and Jorge Iber, Latinos in American Football: Pathbreakers on the Gridiron, 1927 … [Read more...]
Burundanga de Zocotroco El Valor relativo de las cosas Ni santos, ni próceres, ni luz eléctrica Ahora, cuando comenzamos a levantar cabeza y la vida empieza a salir del encierro, … [Read more...]
Ray Telles is a veteran documentary filmmaker whose credits include numerous PBS documentaries and such landmark films as The Fight in the Fields (1997), The Storm that Swept Mexico (2011) and the … [Read more...]
Ray Telles is a veteran documentary filmmaker whose credits include the mainstays of public broadcasting Frontline, National Geographic and American Masters. one of his most impressive films is the … [Read more...]
Honor the historians… “The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.” Jean Bodin, French political philosopher The observation “What’s past is prologue,” from Shakespeare’s “The … [Read more...]
Elsa Flores Almaráz is an accomplished visual artist who works in paint and photography. She is also the widow of the late celebrated Chicano artist Carlos Almaráz (1941-1989). All the time she was … [Read more...]
Elsa Flores Almaráz is the widow of renowned and pioneering Chicano artist Carlos Almaráz (1941-1989). Elsa is also an accomplished artist in her own right. Latinopia asked her how she manages to … [Read more...]
Belinda Henry is the niece of acclaimed New Mexico author Rudolfo "Rudy" Anaya. In this Latinopia Plática, she shares the good news that a special room or sala at New Mexico's Zimmerman Library will … [Read more...]
Luis Garza is a still photographer and filmmaker who curated the 2017 La Raza Magazine exhibit at the Autry Museum of the American West. In this Latinopia Platica Luis recalls a chance meeting with … [Read more...]
Sergio Hernández, acclaimed artist and cartoonist, recently passed away. Sergio began is art career as the cartoonist for the 1970s literary collective, Con Safos. In this Latinopia Plática, Tudy … [Read more...]
Arturo "Tudy" Flores is the co-founder of the Con Safos the pioneering literary group of the 1970s. In the wake of the passing of accomplished artist and cartoonist Sergio Hernández, a member of Con … [Read more...]
For more than forty years Sergio Hernández has been an accomplished artist and cartoonist. He began his artistic trajectory in the 196os when he met artists and writers who producing the Los … [Read more...]
Latinopia grieves the passing of our dear friend and collaborator, accomplished artist and cartoonist Sergio Hernandez. In this Latinopia Plática art historian Isabel Rojas-Williams, author Michael … [Read more...]
Delta Groove Music recording artist Los FabulLocos is a Southern California band whose unique sound, "Cali-Mex,"is a fusion of blues, Americana and Chicano soul music. Band members include Jesús … [Read more...]
Amado M. Peña Jr. is a celebrated artist whose imagery pays homage to his Mexican and Yaqui ancestry with renderings of indigenous life and New Mexico landscapes. A native of Laredo, Texas, in the … [Read more...]
César Martínez is an accomplished San Antonio artist perhaps best known for his iconic pachuco and bato imagery. In the early 1970s, he was a member of the Con Safos art group. César recalls how he … [Read more...]
The Chicano Art Movement in Texas The Texas Chicano art movement began approximately 50 years ago. A precise date for the beginning of an art movement is generally difficult because no one … [Read more...]
