LATINOPIA BOOK REVIEW “MAKING HISPANICS”
MAKING HISPANIC: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American by Dr. G. Cristina Mora, University of Chicago Press, 2014. Reviewed by Dr. Claude S. … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG “CARLOS MUÑOZ, JR. ” VICTORY IS IN THE STRUGGLE”
“VICTORY IS IN THE STRUGGLE" Dr. Carlos Muñoz, Jr. is Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley and one of the participants in the 1968 high school walk-outs in East Los … [Read more...]
ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 3.09.14 “PEARL – MY LAZO!”
I was walking behind Lazaro when Mr Neza stopped reached out and grabbed him by the arm. As Lazaro turned to him I saw something that stopped me in my tracks. Lazaro’s face was completely white, like … [Read more...]
ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 2.27.14 “CRISIS!”
CRISIS! The caravan of zombie vans returning from the destroyed training camp in the Joshua Tree desert approached Los Angeles on the San Bernardino freeway; the setting sun silhouetted the … [Read more...]
WORD VISION with HARRY GAMBOA JR. 2.17.14 “GIRAFFES…”
GIRAFFES AND OTHER GENTLE CREATURES. The barrels of their rifles and guns are placed against my neck and head as I’m ordered to look ahead and march forward along a gauntlet of jeering citizens who … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA CINEMA JOSÉ LUIS RUIZ “THE UNWANTED”
José Luis Ruiz is a ground-breaking Chicano filmmaker and media activist. As Director of the National Latino Communications Center, he was the visionary force behind the acclaimed PBS documentary … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENTS 1937 PONCE MASSACRE
Following the conclusion of the Spanish American War in 1898, the island of Puerto Rico became a colony of the United States. Soon nationalists like Luis Muñoz Marin and Pedro Albizu Campos were … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA DOCUMENT – A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHICANOS IN THE U.S.
CONTEXT: The history of Mexican Americans in the United States has been a long and troubled one. Dr. Felipe De Ortego y Gasca puts this history in perspective in this brief history of Chicanos in the … [Read more...]
ANGELA’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK 6.16.14 “LOS ANGELES CITY HALL”
LOS ANGELES CITY HALL here's another view of this old and historic building, of our city of Los Angeles. Continuing from my Instagram series (http://instagram.com/amosart). … [Read more...]
BRAVO ROAD with DON FELÍPE 3.23.14 “HISPANICS AND EDUCATION”
HISPANICS AND AMERICAN EDUCATION. In 1975, Dr. Marta Sotomayor and I authored a work entitled A Medio Grito: Chicanos and American Education, its research funded by the Ford Foundation and … [Read more...]
ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 3.17.14 “LAZARO – AWAKENING”
I slowly became aware that I was conscious. That it was dark and that I was screaming. “Hold him down,” someone said. The babble of voices in my head was deafening. It was as if a hundred people … [Read more...]
ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 2.09.14 “AFTERMATH”
AFTERMATH. The drone of the helicopters driven by the Oñate zombies was still ringing in my ears when I turned to Pearl. We embraced tightly. Vida, whining persistently, wanted to be part of the … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA HERO DR. OCTAVIO I. ROMANO V
Octavio I. Romano V (1923-2005) was the pioneering founder of Tonatiuh-Quinto Sol Publications, one of the earliest editorials to publish Chicano authors in the United States. He created the Premio … [Read more...]
ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 2.02.14 “BATTLE OF JUMBO ROCKS”
THE BATTLE OF JUMBO ROCKS. The drive back to the Joshua Tree zombie training compound was somber. Pearl and I didn’t look at one another, each lost in our own thoughts. Filomino was convinced … [Read more...]
WORD VISION with HARRY GAMBOA JR. “WHITEWASH”
WHITEWASH During the late 20th Century, the following anonymous graffiti was spray painted across Southern California on surfaces of numerous buildings, sidewalks, freeways, freestanding … [Read more...]
JOSÉ MONTOYA – IN HIS OWN WORDS
JOSÉ MONTOYA - CALIFORNIA ARTIST IN HIS OWN WORDS: By the late 1960s, we have the Chicano Movement begin to consolidate. And the whole concept of what is Chicano Art is being discussed … [Read more...]
REMEMBERING GABRIEL GARCÍA MARQÚEZ
In December of 1982 journalist Luis R. Torres and filmmaker Jesus Salvador Trevino had the opportunity to meet Gabriel Garcia Marquez while attending the Fourth Annual Festival of New Latin American … [Read more...]
MIRÁNDOLO BIEN with EDUARDO DÍAZ 2.02.14 “GALERIA SIN FRONTERAS”
FIRST VOICE, OUR VOICE. I recently attended the opening of Galería Sin Fronteras (Gallery Without Borders), an exhibition at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. The show features 92 … [Read more...]
POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 1. 19.14 “HISTORY MAKERS”
HISTORY MAKERS ARE ALL AROUND US! One thing I’ve learned in my close-to-50 years of organizing and being in the trenches of the civil-rights movement is that if we are to understand and influence … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA WORD LEVI ROMERO
Levi Romero is a native New Mexican poet who was named centennial poet for the state in 2012. His poetry collections include "In the Gathering of Silence" (1996), "A Poetry of Remembrances: New and … [Read more...]