Latino arts, history and culture
RESTORING GERONIMO’S NAME AND PLACE IN THE ANNALS OF AMERICAN HISTORY Consciousness about my Apache Indian roots came to me late in my life not because I sought to occlude or exclude them but … [Read more...]
Lecciones de humanidad Hay quienes dejan un pedazo de su ser bajo nuestra piel que se anquilosa y late como una espina que ni se absorbe ni expulsa, que late bajo una fina … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT THE APACHE WARS1 from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. The encounter between the Apache people and American troops is one of the most violent and devastating chapters in American history. … [Read more...]
Do what I tell you … or the Cucuy will get you! By now I figured I had said everything I wanted to say regarding the current presidential campaign. But then came the onslaught of emails, Facebook … [Read more...]
My late father, Salomón Chavez Huerta, first arrived in this country as an agricultural guest worker in the mid-1900s, during the Bracero Program. The Bracero Program represented a guest worker … [Read more...]
Puerto Rico esta de fiesta, con merecidísima razón. Mónica Puig se creció a la altura del oro en el tenis femenino en Rio de Janeiro, nada menos que un acontecimiento histórico y una gesta épica Es … [Read more...]
As an urban planning scholar and a son of Mexican immigrants, I implore all planning scholars, practitioners and students to stand up and take a position against Donald Trump—the Republican nominee … [Read more...]
Hard to believe I’ve made it to this milestone age of 90—more than half of those years teaching in higher education—still teaching. There were a number of years when I was a high school … [Read more...]
Sports have been a major presence in the lives of Mexican Americans since the early 20th century. This has been particularly true of Mexican Americans in the Midwest, where sports such as baseball … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word Casa on US Latinos from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Maria Elena Vinueza is Vice-President of Cuba's leading artistic and literary foundation, the Casa de las Americas. Here Ms. Vinueza … [Read more...]
The mestizo and the queer exist at this time and point on the evolutionary continuum for a purpose. We are a blending that proves that all blood is intricately woven together and that we are spawned … [Read more...]
4 de Julio en Puerto Rico El Americano no solo habló, escribió las letras en la pared, grandes, de colores para que todo el mundo se entere y nadie tenga dudas. Puerto Rico es un territorio no … [Read more...]
Forget history—let’s drink some beer! Let’s celebrate what we don’t know… Americans love to celebrate—even when they do not exactly know what it is they’re celebrating. The Fourth of July, for … [Read more...]
Intersectionality & Orlando: 4 Things To Consider The horror of the Orlando shooting was made all the worse by the fact that the targets of the shooter’s rage were already part of marginalized … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA MUSIC OLMECA "NO VENGO SOLO" from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Olmeca (David Barragan) is a bilingual rapper whose lyrics evoke powerful imagery about the issues affecting Latinos in … [Read more...]
Latinopia Cinema Esparza on Selena from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Selena is the 1997 blockbuster movie that catapulted actress Jennifer Lopez to fame. Producer Moctesuma Esparza shares the story of … [Read more...]
The decade of the 70’s would be a momentous decade for me, starting with completion of my dissertation Backgrounds of Mexican American Literature. In February of 1970, Ray Small, Dean of Arts and … [Read more...]
Perdido Me pierdo en tus ojos como un ciego que solo se encuentra en su sombra, como el perro abandonado a su destino que encuentra el rumbo a casa, como el rucio que no … [Read more...]
TO BE YOUNG, GAY, LATINO & INVISIBLE It’s hard to process with any gravitas the Orlando tragedy. The first reports made little mention of the names of the dead and the wounded. Instead, the … [Read more...]
