Latino arts, history and culture
Luis J. Rodríguez’s coming of age novel Always Running, chronicles an adolescence steeped in vicious gang life and drug addiction. Luis miraculously survived his years as a gang member and went on to … [Read more...]
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a poet and teacher from Asuza, California. She volunteered with No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization providing water bottles in the Arizona desert where immigrants … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word Christine Granados Addressed from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Christine Granados is a Texas author whose first book, Brides and Sinners in El Chuco won widespread recognition. In her … [Read more...]
Dr. Alvaro Huerta is a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona. In his recent book, Defending Latina/o Migrant Communities in the Xenophobic Era … [Read more...]
Alejandro Morales is an accomplished author of novels and short stories. In the title story of his collection, Little Nation and Other Stories, he imagines a band of scissor-wielding mothers forceably … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word José Murrati An Exile's Papers from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Jose Muratti Toro is a regular contributor to Latinopia with his blog Utopias Descifradas (Disciphered Utopias). Here he … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word Alejandro Morales The Brick People from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Alejandro Morales is a prolific Chicano author whose works include the novels Caras Viejas y Vino Nuevo (1975); Reto … [Read more...]
Alejandro Morales is an author of short stories and novels including The Brick People, Death of an Anglo, and Captain of these Men of Death. In his historical/futuristic novel The Rag Doll Plagues, he … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word Sergio Troncoso Crossing Borders from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Sergio Troncoso is an author of short stories, essays and novels including The Last Tortilla and Other Stories (1999), … [Read more...]
Rolando Hinojosa Smith is a pioneering Chicano author of more than a dozen books. He has won numerous national and international awards including the prestigious Casa de las Américas award given to … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word Tafolla on The Literary Canon from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. The American literary canon are the authors and their works who have been deemed over time to be the best of American … [Read more...]
The American literary canon are the authors and their works who have been deemed over time to be the best of American literature. With few exceptions the canon has historically excluded diverse … [Read more...]
The American literary canon are the authors and their works who have been deemed over time to be the best of American literature. With few exceptions the canon has historically excluded diverse … [Read more...]
In 1974, Chicano poets José Montoya and José Antonio Burciaga traveled to New York to meet with Puerto Rican poets of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. On a street corner in Loisaida (the Lower East Side of … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word David Bowles Lords of the Earth from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. David Bowles is the author of short stories, novels, non-fiction, poetry and children's books. In the science fiction … [Read more...]
Carmen Tafolla is an accomplished author of prose, poetry and chidlren's books and past Poet Laureate of the city of San Antonio, Texas. She is also President of the prestigious Texas Institute of … [Read more...]
Christine Granados is an author who was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. Her writings reflect her experiences growing up along the U.S./Mexico border. Her collection of short stories "Brides and … [Read more...]
Latinopia Event Trevino on Denver Youth Conference from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. In March of 1969, more than 1500 Mexican American youth attended the National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference at … [Read more...]
Liz González is a poet, fiction writer and creative writing instructor whose poetry collection Beneath Bones (Manifest Press) was published in 2000. Her most recent work is the poetry collection, … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word Edward Vidaurre O' Matriarch from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Edward Vidaurre is a poet raised in East Los Angeles and now residing in McAllen Texas where he has been named the poet … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word Edward Vidaurre Reason I dont own a Gun from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Edward Vidaurre is the poet laureate of the city of McAllen, Texas and the author of five books of poetry. His … [Read more...]
