white privilage

THINKING LATINA with SARA INÉS CALDERÓN 3.02.13

WHITE PRIVILEGE IS REAL, AND POWERFUL, BUT NOT UNBREAKABLE. To say we live in a white world is something of an understatement. What I mean specifically is that, no matter what you call your … [Read more...]

SAL BALDENEGRO’S POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS 05.22.26 OUR HISTORICAL TRUTHS ARE NOT ERASABLE

May 22, 2026 By wpengine

Our historical truths aren’t erasable… To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you. John Henrik Clarke, African-American historian, […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 5.22.26 CARMEN LOMAS GARZA: PICTURING THE FAMILIAR

May 22, 2026 By wpengine

Carmen Lomas Garza: “Picturing the Familiar” Opening at Arizona State University On May 2, the Arizona State University [ASU] Art Museum opened an exciting exhibit, “Carmen Lomas Garza: Picturing the Familiar, ” the first major retrospective of this pioneering Mexican American artist in more than two decades. Born in Kingsville, Texas, Carmen Lomas Garza is […]

TALES OF TORRES 05.15.26 LOS LOBOS AND CÉSAR CHÁVEZ ERASURE

May 15, 2026 By wpengine

Cesar Chávez and the Question of Historical Erasure By Luis R. Torres Last Friday I was pleased to attend a screening of a just completed documentary film about the iconic musical group Los Lobos. Their eclectic recordings and performances draw on their mexicano cultural and historical roots as well as their distillation in the […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 05.15.26 MISTURA A PERUVIAN DRAMA

May 15, 2026 By wpengine

Mistura is a 1960s Peruvian drama about Norma (Bárbara Mori), a privileged French-Peruvian woman whose life falls apart when her husband Roberto runs off with a woman half his age. What follows is the bitter realization that her ticket to elite society is tied to Roberto and that her friends at the County Club are […]

LATINOPIA FOOD “JALAPEÑO SODA BREAD” RECIPE

By Tia Tenopia on March 14, 2011

Jalapeño Irish Soda Bread The sweetness of traditional Irish soda bread ingredients—raisins, buttermilk, some sugar—are richly complimented by jalapeño heat. Here’s a soda bread recipe from Ireland brought to the USA from Galway by Mary Patricia Reilly Murray and later transformed with her blessing by her daughter, Bobbi Murray, who added jalapeño chile. A real […]

Category: Cooking, Food, LATINOPIA FOOD

LATINOPIA WORD JOSÉ MONTOYA “PACHUCO PORTFOLIO”

By Tia Tenopia on June 12, 2011

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 iconic and enduring character of El Pachuco, the 1940s Mexican American youth who dressed in the stylish Zoot Suit.

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

LATINOPIA ART SONIA ROMERO 2

By Tia Tenopia on October 20, 2013

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 MacArthur Park Metro Station in Los Angeles, California.

Category: Art, LATINOPIA ART