THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: HATCH CHILE TIME! BURUNDANGA BORICUA ON LA TIERRA DE BORIKÉN (ENGLISH AND SPANISH), RICARDO ROMO ON LATINO ART FROM CASTA TO CHICANOS, AND ALBERTO TITO RIOS ON HOW TO WRITE A POEM.
Food, film, poetry and art this week. We begin with all time hatch green chile recipes. September is hatch chile month and throughout the Southwest people are roasting, peeling and making all kinds of food with green chile. We post here a collection of green chile recipes.
And speaking of food, José M. Umpierre’s posts a reflection by fellow Borinquen Jorge Escudero Franceschini about Umpierre recent film, La Tierra de Borikén. Umpierre’s film is a ground-breaking look at how Puerto Rico’s economy and livelihood depends on imported food from abroad and the self-empowered efforts by local citizens and farmers to reclaim control of their destiny through a new agro-ecological movement based on local efforts to grow their own foods. You can also see the film on Latinopia by scrolling down on the homepage. Definitely worth a look!
Ricardo Romo’s weekly look at the arts in his Tejano Report this week looks at a historical overview of Latino art going back centuries to the art that defined identity by classifying the many differing offspring of generations of mestizo mixtures which, not surprisingly, had political and social propagandist repercussions. Check out the differing castes and the contrast between more contemporary artistic expressions of Chicano culture.
Also this week, we reprise poet and narrative fiction writer ALberto Tito Rios speaking on how to write a poem.
Enjoy your week on Latinopia!
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