TIMELINES

100 YEARS OF LATINO MUSIC

LATINOPIA MUSIC TIMELINE 100 YEARS OF CHICANO/LATINO MUSIC 1900 Gregorio Cortéz, a Tejano, kills a deputy who attempts to arrest him unjustly and flees for his life. Cortéz is eventually … [Read more...]

100 YEARS OF LATINO LITERATURE

100 YEARS OF CHICANO/LATINO LITERATURE 1900 Gregorio Cortéz, a Tejano, kills a deputy who attempts to arrest him unjustly and flees for his life. Cortéz is eventually captured, tried by an … [Read more...]

100 YEARS OF LATINO THEATRE

100 YEARS OF LATINO THEATER IN AMERICA 1900 In Ybor City and Tampa, Florida, Cuban mutual aid societies like El Centro Español de West Tampa, Círculo Cubano and other self-help civic organizations … [Read more...]

100 YEARS OF LATINO ART

LATINOPIA ART TIMELINE 100 YEARS OF LATINO ART IN AMERICA 1900 Mexican born painter Xavier Timotéo Martínez wins honorable mention for his painting of fellow artist Marion Holden Pope at the … [Read more...]

LATINO HISTORY TIMELINE: 1940-1959

200 YEARS OF CHICANO/LATINO HISTORY TIMELINE: 1940- 1959 December 7, 1941 The Japanese air force attacks United States forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. War is declared against … [Read more...]

LATINO HISTORY TIMELINE: 1776-1899

200 YEARS OF CHICANO/LATINO HISTORY TIMELINE 1776-1899 1776 Representatives from thirteen American colonies under the dominion of England sign a Declaration of Independence, … [Read more...]

LATINO HISTORY TIMELINE 1970-1976

200 YEARS OF CHICANO/LATINO HISTORY TIMELINE : 1970-1976 February 28, 1970 Rosalío Muñoz organizes a march to protest the high numbers of Mexican Americans dying in Vietnam. In spite of a … [Read more...]

LATINO HISTORY TIMELINE: 1900-1939

200 YEARS OF CHICANO/LATINO HISTORY TIMELINE: 1900-1939 1900 Gregorio Cortéz, a Tejano, kills a deputy who attempts to arrest him unjustly and flees for his life. Cortéz is eventually … [Read more...]

LATINO HISTORY TIMELINE: 1960-1969

200 YEARS OF CHICANO/LATINO HISTORY TIMELINE: 1960-1969 1960 Henry B. Gonzalez is elected to his first term in Congress. 1960 "Viva Kennedy" Clubs are instrumental in helping John F. Kennedy … [Read more...]

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 […]

LATINOPIA MUSIC ANGELA ROA “TOCO DESAFINADO”

By Tia Tenopia on June 22, 2014

Angela Roa is a Chilean singer and lyricist residing in Los Angeles, California. Her songs are about the Latino experience in the United States and in Latin America. Here she performs an original song, “Toco Desafinado” (Out of Tune). She is accompanied by Fernando Losada, Rich Silva and Thiago Winterstein..

LATINOPIA WORD RANDY JURADO ERTLL “HOPE IN TIMES OF DARKNESS”

By Tia Tenopia on February 9, 2014

Randy Jurado Ertll is a Salvadoran American author and political activist. He and his family fled the civil war in El Salvador by coming to the United States. He grew up in violence-torn South Central Los Angeles in the 1980s but managed to avoid gang life through the intervention of the A Better Chance Scholarship […]