Latino arts, history and culture
Latinopia Word Before the War from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. The late Jose Montoya is considered the patriarch of Chicano letters. In this rare video appearance, the celebrated poet, artist and civil … [Read more...]
De Justos, Pecadores y Cuernos La situación crítica que confronta Puerto Rico apenas comienza a revelarse en su magnitud y complejidad. Con una deuda pública de más de 70 mil millones, la primera … [Read more...]
Chicano/a Studies in an era of Transcendence: Globalization, Constant War, Terror, and Mass Expulsions The official history of NACCS states that “In 1972, at the annual meeting of the … [Read more...]
The war against the working class and poor… A multi-faceted war is being waged on the working class and the poor. On some of the fronts in this war, Democrats are holding hands with Republicans. … [Read more...]
Mientras más lo pienso más me convenzo de que, la historia de Puerto Rico en la primera mitad del Siglo 21 se ha de marcar con el antes y después de las declaraciones del gobernador Alejandro García … [Read more...]
Latinopia Cinema Berumen on Ramón Navarro from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Frank Javier Berumen is a film scholar and author of several landmark books on Latino cinema including Brown Celluloid, Latino … [Read more...]
Latinopia Cinema Mylene on Chicano! from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Mylène Moreno is an acclaimed documentary director and producer whose credits include Recalling Orange County (2006), True-Hearted … [Read more...]
“LOVE ARCHITECTURE? THANK THE GREEKS.” National Geographic Society Advertisement Washington, D.C. Metro Train I’m not one for getting too riled up over commercial advertising. … [Read more...]
For the Mexican American-Chicano community St. Patrick’s Day is—or at least should be—more than a day to have fun and drink green beer. By way of their Mexican heritage, Chicanos/as have an historical … [Read more...]
Donald Trump on Twitter: “I have just learned that Barack Obama married a giraffe! What a bad (sick) guy. Sad.” Washington Daily Chronicle: (Dateline Washington, March 11, 2017) The White … [Read more...]
A trope is a figurative use of language—a metaphor which provides a compact way of representing a subset of cognitive and perceptual features salient to it. In other words, a metaphor mediates the … [Read more...]
Copyright 2017 by Sergio Hernández. … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word The Book of Want from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Daniel A. Olivas is the author of six books and editor of Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Southern California Literature. At a … [Read more...]
NOTES ON THE IRISH/MEXICAN FRONTIER by Ernest Hogan A lot of people have a hard enough time dealing with the complicated reality of Mexican Americans – when you add Irish to the mix, their … [Read more...]
False heroes… The unsavory business of “Hispanic/Latino” organizations giving awards to non-deserving people, often for political reasons, is wrong and needs to stop. A couple of points before I … [Read more...]
Mientras más lo pienso más me convenzo de que, la historia de Puerto Rico en la primera mitad del Siglo 21 se ha de marcar con el antes y después de las declaraciones del gobernador Alejandro García … [Read more...]
Latinopia Art Gronk on Critical Art from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Gronk (Guglio Nicandro) is a renowned painter, print maker and performance artist. He is co-founder of the performance art … [Read more...]
Any comparison between the history-making 1978 production of Zoot Suit with its 2017 retelling would be unfair to the latter. It’s not the same Zoot Suit We are older but the audience is younger. The … [Read more...]
The Sunday after the recent presidential election was particularly special at All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C., where I worship. Aside from Easter, I have never seen the church so … [Read more...]
In the current revival of Luis Valdez’s play Zoot Suit at L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum, the iconic El Pachuco character (played by Demian Bichir) admonishes the rebellious character of Henry Reyna, played … [Read more...]
