FEBRUARY EVENTS 2013
LOS ANGELES AREA BROWN IS BEAUTIFUL CROWD FUNDING PARTY FEBRUARY 2, 2013 7-10PM ESPACIO 1839 1839 FIRST STREET LOS ANGELES, CA 90063 INFO: Facebook Event … [Read more...]
OCTOBER EVENTS 2012
LOS ANGELES AREA VARIATIONS OCTOBER 1 THU OCTOBER 7, 2012 AVE 50 GALLERY 131 NORTH AVENUE 50 LOS ANGELES, CA 90042 INFO: http://www.avenue50studio.com Two courageous border artists, … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA BOOK REVIEW “GLOBAL CAPITALIST CRISIS”
Global Capitalist Crisis and the Second Great Depression: Egalitarian Systemic Models for Social Change By Dr. Armando Navarro 2012, Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA BOOK REVIEW NICHOLASA MOHR “NILDA”
Nilda, by Nicholasa Mohr Arte Público Press: 2011 248 ppg. Originally published by Harper & Row: 1974 Reviewed by Thelma T. Reyna, Ph.D. Book Review #1 in the PIONEER AMERICAN … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA ART WAYNE HEALY
Wayne Healy grew up in East Los Angeles. He was educated as a engineer but in 1972 he met artists from the Mexicano Art Center and soon shifted careers and became one of the leading Chicano … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA SHOWCASE ELUSIVE MINDS
Elusive Minds is a Latino podcast created by Michael Centeno, Nathan Morales, Adolfo Hernández and Johnny the Geek in response to the lack of online content by and about Latinos. The podcast which can … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA WORD RENE PÉREZ “ALONG THESE HIGHWAYS”
Rene Pérez is a Texas author whose first collection of short stories, "Along These Highways," was published by Bilingual Review Press in 2012. A keen observer of life in urban and rural Texas, he has … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA MOMENT IN TIME “BECAS DE AZTLÁN”
The Becas de Aztlan (Aztlan Scholarships) program was initiated during the administration of Mexico’s President, Luis Echeverría Alvarez (1970-1976). José Angel Gutíerrez and other Chicano educators … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA TEATRO “ESPIRITÚ DE AZTLÁN”
During the 1970s a vibrant Chicano theater movement spread across the United States. Inspired by the success of El Teatro Campesino, dozens of theater companies began performing for Latino audiences … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA ART “SHIFRA GOLDMAN ON CHICANO ART”
The late Dr. Shifra Goldman (1926-2011) is considered by many as the foremost scholar and historian of Chicano Art. Beginning in the 1960s, she was instrumental in putting Chicano Art movement on … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA BOOK REVIEW “THE CHINESE IN MEXICO”
“The Chinese in Mexico 1882-1940" University of Arizona Press (www.uapress.arizona.edu) Roberto Chao Romero Reviewed by Luis … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA SHOWCASE “OJO DE AGUA”
Roberto Olivares is a member of the "Ojo de Agua" (Eye of Water) film collective based in Oaxaca, Mexico. The group produces documentaries about the indigenous communities of Mexico while also … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA BOOK REVIEW “PIO PICO GOV. OF MEXICAN CALIFORNIA”
“Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California” by Carlos Manuel Salomon University of Oklahoma Press 223 pages Luis Torres luis.r.torres@charter.net (626) 577-5664 March 10, … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA BOOK REVIEW “CHOLO WRITING: GANG GRAFFITI IN L.A.”
Cholo Writing: Latino Gang Graffiti in Los Angeles” Published by Dokument Press (Stockholm, Sweden) by Francois Chastanet and Howard Gribble Review written by Luís … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA BIOGRAPHY DR. RODOLFO ACUÑA
Dr. Rodolfo Francisco Acuña is a historian, educator and social activist. In 1969, he co-founded the Chicana/o Studies Department at San Fernando Valley State College (later called California State … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA FOOD “TORTAS DE CAMARÓN 1”
Diane Velarde Hernández brings us another tasty recipe. This time it is "Tortas de Camarón with Nopales," (Shrimp Fritters with Cactus). Now this may sound a bit off-putting--cactus? But Latinopia … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA MOMENT IN TIME “1969 HOUSTON HIGH SCHOOL WALK-OUT”
1968 and 1969 were years when Mexican American high school students throughout the United States protested the inferior education they were receiving by simply walking out of school en masse. … [Read more...]
WELCOME TO LATINOPIA.COM – LATINO ARTS HISTORY AND CULTURE
Welcome to Latinopia.com, the premiere site for Latino history, art, music, literature, theater, cinema and food in the United States! Latinopia is dedicated to utilizing the internet … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA HISTORY MOMENT IN TIME 1974 TENAZ AT TEOTIHUACAN
With the founding of El Teatro Campesino (The Farm Workers Theater) in 1965, the notion of Chicano theater that espoused politics and culture of La Raza soon spread through out the United States. … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA CINEMA HECTOR GALAN
Hector Galan is an award winning documentary filmmaker who has produced documentaries for the NOVA and American Experience series on PBS. He was the Supervising Producer of the acclaimed PBS … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA TEATRO “NOTHING TO DECLARE”
Raquel Sentías is a playwright and actress based in Laredo, Texas. She wrote "Nothing to Declare" which takes a whimsical look at the travails faced by Americans when they travel to and from Mexico … [Read more...]