Latino arts, history and culture
UT Austin's Elimination of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies is a Betrayal of Texas By Alfonso Ayala III, Doctoral Student, Mexican American & Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas at … [Read more...]
“Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.” Dorothy Nolte (1924 – 2005), American poet, writer, and family counselor. Historic role reversal… In … [Read more...]
Fascism, the New U.S. Reality by Rogelio Sáenz Many Americans use the term fascism to describe nations headed by rogue dictators. Never here! But, one year into Donald Trump’s second term as … [Read more...]
The impressive exhibit Frida: The Making of an Icon at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston traces Frida Kahlo’s posthumous evolution from a relatively unknown Mexican painter to a multifaceted global … [Read more...]
In this first episode of the Ernesto Galarza Story we learn of Galarza's early childhood, his education at Occidental College and Stanford University and his vital role as an international ombudsman … [Read more...]
In this second episode of the Ernesto Galarza Story we learn of Galarza's work as a diplomat and ombudsman to Latin American countries during World War Two and how this led to his being investigated … [Read more...]
February 2, 1848 marks the date of the end of the war between Mexico and the United States and the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which resulted in the U.S. annexation of fifty percent of … [Read more...]
Juan Tejeda is music director of the San Antonio Conjunto Music Festival held each year and sponsored by the Guadalupe Cultural Center. Now in its 30th year, the festival brings together Conjunto … [Read more...]
Conjunto Aztlán is a San Antonio-based music group with roots in the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1970s. The group is comprised of Juan Tejeda, J.J. Barrera, Clemencia Zapata, José Flores … [Read more...]
Alejandro Díaz, A Latino Texan-New Yorker Exhibits at Ruiz-Healy Art Gallery. Texas native Alejandro Díaz developed an artistic practice over thirty-five years grounded in the bicultural and visual … [Read more...]
The Kind Act of Solidarity By Jorge “Coqui”H Rodriguez Renee Nicole Good was the act of kindness all Americans need to follow Renee Nicole Good was a brave soul who’s … [Read more...]
The Rio Grande has long been more than a river dividing nations; it has been a meeting place of cultures, faiths, and hidden legacies. Along its banks, towns in northern Mexico and South Texas became … [Read more...]
José Montoya is a renowned poet, artist and activist who has been in the forefront of the Chicano art movement. One of his most celebrated poems is titled "Pachuco Portfolio" which pays homage to the … [Read more...]
During the 1940s and 1950s, two of the well-known Mexican actors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema that I would see on the big screen at the Cine Azteca in the Barrio El Azteca were Arturo de … [Read more...]
Sonia Romero is a graphic artist,muralist and print maker. In this second profile on Sonia and her work, Latinopia explores Sonia's public murals, in particular the "Urban Oasis" mural at the … [Read more...]
The McNay Art Museum, founded in 1954 as Texas’s first modern art museum, occupies Marion Koogler McNay’s Spanish Colonial Revival mansion in San Antonio. The museum is situated on 24 landscaped … [Read more...]
José Umpierre is a regular contributor to Latinopia, a scholar and a filmmaker. His most recent concerns are about the fact that Puerto Rico, which was once self-sustaining in its food supply, must … [Read more...]
The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) has nearly 90,000 square feet of gallery space and a permanent collection of over 30,000 objects. SAMA’s collections span over 5,000 years and comprise objects … [Read more...]
Mark Guerrero interviews Lorenzo "Lencho" Martinez, a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist whose primary instrument is the guitarron. Martinez was a longtime member of the Grammy winning Tejano … [Read more...]
Alejandro Morales is a prolific author whose latest work is The Place of the White Heron, an illusion to the mythical Aztlán, the original homeland of the Aztecs. The protagonist of his novel is J.I. … [Read more...]
