Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a social earthquake in which dozens of people were killed and over a thousand buildings burned. Even before it erupted, the … [Read more...]
Suelo abordar mis temas y mis traumas con una idea más o menos clara de a dónde me dirijo y las posiciones que adopto. No así en esta ocasión. Aprovecho el privilegio de la página en blanco para … [Read more...]
Chicano Music Chronicles spotlights Chicano and other Latino artists and their music on a monthly basis on the Chicano Radio Network (CRNLive.com). Hosted by recording artist and musicologist Mark … [Read more...]
De Justos, Pecadores y Cuernos La situación crítica que confronta Puerto Rico apenas comienza a revelarse en su magnitud y complejidad. Con una deuda pública de más de 70 mil millones, la primera … [Read more...]
Chicano/a Studies in an era of Transcendence: Globalization, Constant War, Terror, and Mass Expulsions The official history of NACCS states that “In 1972, at the annual meeting of the … [Read more...]
Mientras más lo pienso más me convenzo de que, la historia de Puerto Rico en la primera mitad del Siglo 21 se ha de marcar con el antes y después de las declaraciones del gobernador Alejandro García … [Read more...]
“LOVE ARCHITECTURE? THANK THE GREEKS.” National Geographic Society Advertisement Washington, D.C. Metro Train I’m not one for getting too riled up over commercial advertising. … [Read more...]
For the Mexican American-Chicano community St. Patrick’s Day is—or at least should be—more than a day to have fun and drink green beer. By way of their Mexican heritage, Chicanos/as have an historical … [Read more...]
Donald Trump on Twitter: “I have just learned that Barack Obama married a giraffe! What a bad (sick) guy. Sad.” Washington Daily Chronicle: (Dateline Washington, March 11, 2017) The White … [Read more...]
A trope is a figurative use of language—a metaphor which provides a compact way of representing a subset of cognitive and perceptual features salient to it. In other words, a metaphor mediates the … [Read more...]
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NOTES ON THE IRISH/MEXICAN FRONTIER by Ernest Hogan A lot of people have a hard enough time dealing with the complicated reality of Mexican Americans – when you add Irish to the mix, their … [Read more...]
False heroes… The unsavory business of “Hispanic/Latino” organizations giving awards to non-deserving people, often for political reasons, is wrong and needs to stop. A couple of points before I … [Read more...]
Mientras más lo pienso más me convenzo de que, la historia de Puerto Rico en la primera mitad del Siglo 21 se ha de marcar con el antes y después de las declaraciones del gobernador Alejandro García … [Read more...]
The Sunday after the recent presidential election was particularly special at All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C., where I worship. Aside from Easter, I have never seen the church so … [Read more...]
The 2016 Oscar Awards fue un desmadre—a disaster, not the Chris Rock show: the Awards. I had thought about going to the Oscar Awards event this year to protest the paucity (near absence) of minority … [Read more...]
Burundanga de Zocotroco La incertidumbre comienza a disiparse y los pronósticos a confirmarse ante la primera proclama. La especulación se hizo fecunda durante el largo proceso de espera que … [Read more...]
Honoring MLK and Chávez correctly… It’s the season to honor two human-rights icons and role models who put into practice the Gospel instruction: Insofar as you do this unto the least of my … [Read more...]
I'm the son of Mexican immigrants, but I ain’t no anchor baby. My late father, Salomon, first migrated to the United States during the 1950s via the Bracero Program, in which more than 4.6 million … [Read more...]
