ANGELA’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK 4.17.16 “REACHING HIGH”

April 17, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 8.08.20

August 8, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: MARÍA NATIVIDAD REMEMBERING AUGUST 3, 2019; NATIVIDAD ON THE BORDER HOPE INSTITUTE , BURUNDANGA BORICUA ON BARBARA TUCHMAN’S THE MARCH OF FOLLY AND PASO DEL NORTE WITH CONJUNTO LOS POCHOS. Hola mi gente! This week marks a year since a crazed gunman, obsessed with killing as many Mexicans as he could, […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 8.08.20

August 8, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Burundanga de Zocotroco Por mediación del buen amigo Kendal Marsh, responsable de mi evolución ideologíca, llega a mi el libro March of Folly: from Troy to Viet Nam de la historiadora Barbara Tuchman. Traduzco aquí fragmentos que parafraseo intentando conservar su significado. De partida propone la laureada escritora que un fenómeno notable en la historia, […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 08.01.20 “LATINO PARENTS WORRY ABOUT REOPENING SCHOOLS”

August 1, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Latino Parents Worry About Reopening Schools For families across America, mid summer has traditionally been a time to start thinking about the upcoming fall classes. Over 50 million students were expected to enroll in the nation’s secondary schools this fall. But these are perilous times when the Covid crisis dominates many decisions and nearly every […]

UTOPIAS DESCIFRADAS with JOSÉ E. MURATTI-TORO 7.18.20 CAN HAMILTON PREVAIL IN THE BLM ERA?

July 18, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Can Hamilton prevail in the BLM Era? The controversy over Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton could not have been anticipated in 2015, especially during the Obama presidency. Black Lives Matter, as a response to a two-hundred year thorn in the nation’s heart and as a movement, did not occupy the center stage of U.S. politics at […]

LATINOPIA ART GASPAR ENRÍQUEZ 1 “RETROSPECTIVE”

By Tia Tenopia on May 4, 2014

Gaspar Enríquez is a renowned Chicano artist whose airbrush portraits of barrio youth are haunting and memorable. Drawing from museums and collectors around the United States, in April 2014, the El Paso Museum of Art mounted a retrospective of Gaspar’s art titled Metaphors of the Barrio. Latinopia visited the exhibit and asked Gaspar what inspires […]

Category: Art, LATINOPIA ART

LATINOPIA EVENT 1966 UFW PEREGRINACIÓN (PILGRIMAGE) MARCH

By Tia Tenopia on March 19, 2013

The effort to organize farm workers under a union contract has been a long and difficult struggle. In 1965, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta created what would become the United Farm Workers Union. From the onset they faced many obstacles, not the least of which was how to get dozens of California grape growers to […]

Category: History, LATINOPIA EVENT

LATINOPIA FOOD “JALAPEÑO SODA BREAD” RECIPE

By Tia Tenopia on March 14, 2011

Jalapeño Irish Soda Bread The sweetness of traditional Irish soda bread ingredients—raisins, buttermilk, some sugar—are richly complimented by jalapeño heat. Here’s a soda bread recipe from Ireland brought to the USA from Galway by Mary Patricia Reilly Murray and later transformed with her blessing by her daughter, Bobbi Murray, who added jalapeño chile. A real […]

Category: Cooking, Food, LATINOPIA FOOD