What has made the United States the country it has become? There are myriad answers. All of them right—cada cabeza es un mundo—every head is a world. My answer reflects a … [Read more...]
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...]
SEARCHING FOR AMERICA: LIVING ON THE MARGIN OF AMERICAN LITERATURE Before there was American literature in my life there was Mexica literature then a host of books from foreign countries in … [Read more...]
LIBROS Y MÁS/ BOOKS & MORE. Some years ago, my good friend and indomitable poet Ricardo Sanchez established in San Antonio a bookstore which he called Libros y Mas, a reasonably successful … [Read more...]
LIBROS Y MÁS. Every year in the Spring, the New Mexican writer and activist, Denise Chavez holds her Border Book Festival in Mesilla, New Mexico, near Las Cruces; and every year it turns out to be … [Read more...]
THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: ENCUENTRO 2014, A LATINO THEATER EPIC, DON FELIPE SEARCHES FOR AMERICA, ELIZABETH PEÑA REMEMBERED, VETERANS WE RECALL, LAX AND MORE. What up my rockin’ Latinopian locos and … [Read more...]
MICHAEL BROWN: COLOR AND CHARACTER IN AMERICAN RACIAL PROGRESS. More than fifty years ago on August 28, 1963, when my hair was black, I was a teacher of French at Jefferson High School in El Paso, … [Read more...]
The country is beset these days with controversies of opposition—guns, immigration, abortion, national debt, profiling, civil rights, freedom of speech anent book banning, environmental justice, … [Read more...]
TACO TRUCKS: “STREETAURANTS” AND LE BON PAIN. It seems to me that in the case of most life forms, if not all, food is a function of form. That is, life forms need sustenance to survive. From the … [Read more...]
DEATH IN DALLAS, et tu OSWALD By Felípe de Ortego y Gasca Fifty years ago on November 22, 1963, I was the French teacher at Jefferson High School in El Paso, Texas. That day, a death in Dallas … [Read more...]
