Latino arts, history and culture
IN AMERICA’S DEFENSE: MEXICANS AND MEXICAN AMERICANS By Felipe de Ortego y Gasca At almost 92, World War II seems like a world and a half ago. I had just turned 17 in 1943 … [Read more...]
The current brouhaha in the Confederate South over the Confederate Battle Flag attests to the ferocity of our beliefs in the flags of our fathers, right or wrong the sentiments. The strongest … [Read more...]
Scholar and long time Latinopia blogger Felípe de Ortego y Gasca passed away on December 29, 2018. A prolific author, he wrote 56 articles for Latinopia from the time he started blogging on Latinopia … [Read more...]
In 1973 Washington Square Press—a Division of Simon & Schuster—published a Pocket Books edition of We Are Chicanos: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature, first critical anthology of Mexican … [Read more...]
DEMOGRAPHY AND DESTINY: AMERICAN HISPANICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY--IMPLICATIONS OF MINORITY TO MAJORITY SHIFTS IN SELECT GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS As part of the process of keeping my college … [Read more...]
My dream has not withered like a raisin in the sun, though at my age I wonder what my “future” would have been had I realized my dream of being a college or university president. It never … [Read more...]
I was surprised by the American Legion Magazine interview on the GI Bill with Henry Kissinger and Hank Greenberg (June 2017). These are two public figures whom I’ve long admired despite … [Read more...]
It seems to be a truism of history that significant events begin inauspiciously. Or at least if one is attuned to the significance of the moment, its augury for the future … [Read more...]
JAMES BALDWIN, RICHARD WRIGHT, THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND CHICANO CONSCIOUSNESS Our paths did not cross … [Read more...]
THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: MICHEAL SEDANO ON "THE FABULOUS SINKHOLE COMES TO LIFE," BURUNDANGA BORICUA ON "CELEBRATING THE CUATRO," DON FELIPE ON "IF NOT FOR THE G.I. BILL" AND MITOTE PERFORMING "LA … [Read more...]
When I first met George I. Sanchez in 1963 I was a member of the Southwest Council of Foreign Language Teachers organized by María Esman (Barker) and María Urquides. I was then teaching French at … [Read more...]
It’s not that the American Media is crooked, as Donald Trump rages against it, they’re blind-sided by their perception of America as white despite the fact that the United States has never been a … [Read more...]
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING In 1888 Rudyard Kipling wrote “The Man Who Would Be King” an “extraordinary social parable” about two British adventurers who, in Keystone Kops fashion, became kings … [Read more...]
When my wife Gilda suggested a drive to the Esperanza Vineyard in Sherman, New Mexico, just East of Silver City, New Mexico, I readily agreed. It was a perfect sunny day for such a drive and … [Read more...]
MASKS OF IDENTITY: THE SPACE OF LIMINAL POSSIBILITIES Abstract: A case study in teaching from 2007-2014 a dual-enrollment university course in Composition & Rhetoric 101 and 102 Exposition and … [Read more...]
THE LATINO DIASPORA AND HERMANDAD I At the moment the U.S. Census Bureau calculates there are about 60 million American Hispanics—not Hispanic Americans—in the United States, all of whom are … [Read more...]
It may seem incongruous to link Robert James Waller and Chicano literature: he of the best-selling novel The Bridges of Madison County; and Chicano literature so unread and so unknown—except to the … [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...]
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...]
The 2016 Oscar Awards fue un desmadre—a disaster, not the Chris Rock show: the Awards. I had thought about going to the Oscar Awards event this year to protest the paucity (near absence) of minority … [Read more...]
MORNING IN AMERICA: MANOS A LA OBRA DONALD TRUMP’S BID FOR THE WHITE HOUSE It’s morning in America, Donald Trump is President Elect, the sun is shining, the water in my shower came … [Read more...]
