Cultura Entries

7 de Mayo, 2008

Symbol and Essence: Part 4.5

Categorized under Blogando , Comida , Cultura , Historia , Medios | Tags: blogs, Cinco de Mayo, MainStreet.com

GRACIAS to Jessica Wakeman, who interviewed me yesterday for her Cinco de Mayo article at mainstreet.com. Thanks, Jessica, for doing just what you promised by putting some focus on certain points I hoped to stress. Even if that geography wasn't originally in your plan. What? My tacky chile pepper...

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 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 11:58 AM.  | | (3)

5 de Mayo, 2008

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Categorized under Comida , Cultura , Música , Raza , día festivo | Tags: borders, Cheech and Chong, Chicanos, Film, lowriders, Mexicans, Mexico, migra, music, Obama, War, YouTube

MIS AMIGOS! It's a sunny day, we're alive in a moment many others have not lived to see, and still we refuse to be ruled by fear and misdirection and by those who would control us and keep us mired in an occupation of the mind, soul, and belief...

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1 de Mayo, 2008

Carne Asada is Not a Crime!

Categorized under Acción , Comida , Cultura , Raza , día festivo | Tags: Califas, May Day, Tacos

OYE, lovers of Carne Asada and other related deliciousness! The Great Endangered Taco Truck is not just an issue in Jefferson Parish, New Orleans! As la buena gente at saveourtacotrucks.org/ reminds us, Carne Asada is Not a Crime! As mentioned in The Los Angeles Times, to celebrate this year’s...

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Marching Side by Side

Categorized under Cultura , Derechos Humanos , Raza , día festivo | Tags: African Americans, Amigos and Amigas, Blacks, Califas, Latino, May Day, Power to the People

HAPPY MAY DAY. And may the day resonate with the energy of our collective hopes and la lucha that can not end until justice is felt in the heart and the lives of all those who need to be so recognized. The USA teaches us many myths: the Hero Myth,...

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29 de Abril, 2008

A Proper Context

Categorized under Cultura , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Política México | Tags: Format, historia, Latino, Mexico

MEXCELLENT. AUSTIN, Texas — The School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin is offering an online course for working journalists on how to incorporate the voices and views of their communities' Latinos into their reporting. The four-week course, "Covering the Latino Community," will teach journalists across Texas...

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31 de Marzo, 2008

Cesar Chavez Day?

Categorized under Comida , Cultura , Raza , día festivo | Tags: Chavez, Farming, Mexicans, Migrant farmers, Obama, Power to the People, UFW

¡FELIZ CUMPLEANOS, Señor Chavez! Or...Salud! It's been a while since you've been gone. Your work and deeds and purpose and name carry on. As farmworkers and laborers across America continue to struggle for fair treatment and fair wages, we find strength in what Cesar Chavez accomplished so many years...

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27 de Marzo, 2008

Brown Barbie Power!

Categorized under Cultura , Foto , Medios | Tags: I should tag this something, Race in Media

SOMEONE CALL BUCHANAN BARBIE!!! Because judging by a trip to the local Big Lots! store, the white Barbie Doll population is being overrun by teeming hordes of darkie dolls!!!! It was actually pretty cool to see. Things have changed a lot since the days I played with Barbies. Wait,...

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24 de Marzo, 2008

Bethesda and Oaxaca [The White Lens 8.5]

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Foto , Historia , La Lente Blanca , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Eugene, Format, iPhone, Mestizaje, Mexico, MTV, Oaxaca, Obama, Oregon, race, racism

AND NOW A STEAMING MUG OF COFFEE and a big wave from Nezua and all others in la casa—and by the way, big thanks to my weekend warriors, those that showed up and bloggedeth, adding their stones to the scale, daring to brave a hungry and discerning readership that...

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22 de Marzo, 2008

I was in the room when....

Categorized under Aprender , Character Study , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Gobierno , Guest Blogando , Historia , Invitados , La Lente Blanca , Política Estados Unidos , Preguntas , Race for '08 , Rafael , Raza , Religión , Stories , Terrorizing la Gente , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: consequences, Obama, pastor, race, religion, truth

I was in the room when... a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic...

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 rafael is a student, a writer, a blogger, a podcaster and above all else a dreamer. This post sent into the airwaves at 7:52 AM.  | | (8)

21 de Marzo, 2008

La Misma Luna [The Same Moon]

Categorized under Cultura , Raza | Tags: ALIENZ, Film, Immigration, Mexicans, Mexico

MAYBE AS MORE PEOPLE who are concerned with the inhumanity shown to migrants and the deeply-entrenched iniquities in place that perpetuate the harm being done to raza, to families, and to the economy and well-being of our nation as well as Mexico's get into positions of media making, the heavily...

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7 de Marzo, 2008

MALVERDE - La Marcha

Categorized under Artivism , Cultura , Frontera , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: borders, HR4437, Immigration, Latino, MALVERDE, May Day, Mexicans, Mexico, music, YouTube

I KNOW you been bumpin' this. For when gente feel like they've had enough Flamenco for the evening. Some pride and unity and rhythm and flow from Mexican American Hip Hop artist Malverde....

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5 de Marzo, 2008

that's why we use an X

Categorized under Cultura , Poesía , Raza | Tags: Chicanas, Chicanos

xicano means beautiful despised children of tomorrow dodging wire forged by yesterday's lie to me xicano is a name for orphan a child abandoned by tradition, tribe, and history a nimble heart running barefoot along the bloodied lips of the land kicking up wind and rain scoop of sweet corn...

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22 de Febrero, 2008

Eres Para Mi

Categorized under Cultura , Música | Tags: español, Language, music, YouTube

Enjoy the weekend, vat@s!...

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21 de Febrero, 2008

Microsoft, the Anti-Hispanic (Mexican) Company!

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Medios | Tags: Language, Microsoft, putos, QuieroLatino

THIS LINK was sent to me by the people at quierolatino.com. Can't say I was surprised. But I was annoyed. When we started developing QuieroLatino.com as the exclusive online dating site for Latinos in the US, we created a website primarily in English but with Spanish terms and phrases incorporate...

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Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home

Categorized under Comida , Corazón , Cultura , Literatura , Parenting | Tags: Adoption, Authors, Comida, Kim Sunée

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL STORY, full of poignant struggle, sensuality, sorrow, happiness, and food. In 1973, when she was 3, her mother abandoned her in a crowded South Korean market swirling in gray mist and banana flowers. “Although memories are distorted,” she writes, “there are true sensations one doesn’t forget,...

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20 de Febrero, 2008

Teatro Izcalli (San Diego)

Categorized under Cultura , Humor , Raza | Tags: Chicanas, Chicanos, Comedy, San Diego

DO YOU LOVE COMEDY and live near San Diego? Check behind the cut for a Chican@ comedy troupe coming to town....

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17 de Febrero, 2008

Essential Cream of Frida?

Categorized under Arte , Corazón , Cultura , Latin America , Raza | Tags: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Mexico, Que Viva Las Mujeres

CUANDO PIENSO EN FRIDA KAHLO, I think of pain. And beauty. When I think of Frida Kahlo, I think of a lifetime sentence of physical agony...and the spirit that must have moved this woman, the spirit that enabled her to keep living, and to create. When I think of...

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6 de Febrero, 2008

The Unapologetic Mexican ACTION FIGURE!

Categorized under Arte , Cultura | Tags: arte, Jerry Vigil, the Unapologetic Mexican

I KNOW YOU have been on pins and needles for this little treat and now you can finally stop living without it! The Official Unapologetic Muertolito as crafted by the very talented Jerry Vigil, of vigilarte.net! Jerry is a wild gato who specializes in Chicano arte, Muertos arte, y...

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20 de Enero, 2008

Smart Employees Within!

Categorized under Cultura , Español | Tags: Home Depot

PROPZ to Home Depot (somewhere in Oregon) for choosing a different style than the tired "English Only" route....

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The Hipsanik Effect

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido | Tags: ALIENZ, blogs, Immigration, putos

IT DEPRESSES ME that I have to share a land with these people: The illegal aliens who invade our country, by their own illegal act, attack our fundamental ideals and principles, and endanger the future of America. They don't hesitate to play the 'race card' to validate their own illegal...

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18 de Enero, 2008

Poison? Or Antidote?

Categorized under Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Español , Frontera , Hipnotismo , Historia | Tags: borders, Bracero, Immigration, Mexico

South Carolina has one of the fastest-growing Latino populations in the nation, and illegal immigration is one of the hottest topics -- along with concerns about the economy and the Iraq war -- among likely voters in the state's Republican primary Saturday. In Saluda County, a collection of farming and...

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15 de Enero, 2008

Mix it up

Categorized under Cultura | Tags: Bob Marley, Mestizaje, mestizo

I'M A MEXICAN Romanian Jewish German American who was raised (moving from state to state) in a faith based on Eastern (India) philosophies, born in Los Angeles but who has a slight new york accent, who grew up immersed and in love with hip-hop, breakdancing, and many elements of...

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8 de Enero, 2008

Lydia Mendoza, ¡presente!

Categorized under Arte , Corazón , Cultura , Historia , M , Música , Raza , Salud | Tags: brown pride, Chicanas, Lydia Mendoza, Mexicans, music, workers

Lydia Mendoza, a woman whose song and performance became part of the cornerstones of American music, died on December 20, 2007 at 91 years old. Her accolades include being the first Texan to win the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship in 1982 and winning the National Medal...

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 M spits hot fire at Problemchylde. This post was rhymed and ripped by the hottest blogger of all time at 6:16 AM.  | | (7)

4 de Enero, 2008

Haitian Family Busted for Criminal Underpantsiness

Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Cultura | Tags: Police Brutality, satire

THANK GOD WE HAVE SWAT TEAMS who can respond to butt crack criminality! WELLINGTON — Six members of a family were arrested at The Mall at Wellington Green in an incident that began benignly enough over a pair of droopy jeans but ended like a chaotic scene out of...

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2 de Enero, 2008

wetback

Categorized under Cultura | Tags: Mexicans, racism

WHEN I WAS YOUNGER and I first heard the term "wetback," I had no idea why it was a slur for Mexicanos. I didn't ask anyone, this was before I met Google (around 1983ish? pic here is from '93 tho), and I was only left with my imagination. Whatever...

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12 de Diciembre, 2007

La Virgen Morena, Our Lady Guadalupe, Oatlaxopeuh

Categorized under Cultura , día festivo | Tags: Guadalupe, Mexico

Before the Christmas season "officially" begins on December 16, day when the first Posada takes place, Mexicans join together for the festivities of Our Lady of Guadalupe, on December 12. This is one of the most important dates in the Mexican calendar. On this date, thousands of the faithful from...

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9 de Diciembre, 2007

Pretty Bird Woman House

Categorized under Acción , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , Indígena | Tags: indigenous, Olbermann, Pretty Bird Woman House, The Haunted Land, Violence Against Women

OLBERMANN, I already know you read me, dawg. Stop LYIN'. And we all know you are down with tha populace, and have been a beacon of hope to many of the voiceless. You have put that pretty mug in front of the camera and scoffed forth many important statements...

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6 de Diciembre, 2007

Ask a Chola Bout the WGA Strike

Categorized under Cultura , Humor , Raza | Tags: Ask A Chola, WGA, YouTube

sombrero tip to Michael A. Deliz aka The Latino Insurgent. ¡Órale!...

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1 de Diciembre, 2007

Volver [Return]

Categorized under Cultura , Música | Tags: Almodóvar, Estrella Morente, Flamenco, music, YouTube

WHILE THIS VIDEO may not be as well shot as the other videos I'v posted on my favorito female flamenco singer, Estrella Morente again blows minds and sweeps us off our feet with this rendition of Volver, which was featured in the Almodóvar film of the same name. What a...

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25 de Noviembre, 2007

America's Little Warlings

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Guerra | Tags: Change, Children, escuela, Hope, Peace Warriors, Power to the People, war on terror, White Supremacy

“We’ve worn handmade peace shirts every Thursday since the first week of school, without fail,” Skylar said. But what started out as a light-hearted gesture soon started to be taken out of context. Students started approaching the group members, yelling obscene things at them, said Lauren. “People just turned...

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22 de Noviembre, 2007

A Focus of Mine

Categorized under Cultura , Medios | Tags: racism, White Supremacy

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18 de Noviembre, 2007

Overtaking the Joneses [The War Between Surnames]

Categorized under Cultura , Historia , Medios | Tags: Adoption, español, familia, historia, hype, Language, Latino, My Life, Que Viva Las Mujeres, The Haunted Land

THE EPIC STRUGGLE BETWEEN SURNAMES has been raging across the land largely unnoticed, but somewhere or other, the battle lines have been drawn. Articles like the New York Times' In Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up to Joneses bring an accounting of the war torn namescape to us back...

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1 de Noviembre, 2007

Happy Day of the Dead!

Categorized under Cultura , día festivo | Tags: Dia de Los Muertos

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28 de Octubre, 2007

Ojos Para Volar

Categorized under Arte , Cultura , Foto | Tags: arte, Graciela Iturbide, Que Viva Las Mujeres

THREE FOTOS today celebrating the arte of Graciela Iturbide and the beauty of la Mujer....

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15 de Octubre, 2007

There's Death in the Passing Lane [The White Lens IIX]

Categorized under Corazón , Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Español , Hipnotismo , La Lente Blanca , Mi Familia | Tags: Adoption, assimilation, familia, Lou Dobbs, mestizo, Mexicans, pundits, racism, Tancredo, The White Lens, Xicanos

WHEN I MET THE WOMAN who is now mi novia, I told her about my mexican ethnicity as if it were a religion I could choose to practice—or not. As if it were something I didn't have to be. And I guess that's exactly how I felt for so...

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13 de Octubre, 2007

Pomona Art Show, Armando Cepeda

Categorized under Arte , Cultura , Raza | Tags: arte

AN ART SHOW by vato Armando Cepeda, going on in Pomona, Califas if you're in the area. I pass this goodie along. Dear Friends and Family, I am happy to invite everyone to see my newest artwork entitled: "Venganzen Cabrones." It will debut this Saturday at dA Gallery in...

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4 de Octubre, 2007

Yo Soy La Cultura Cambiando

Categorized under Cultura , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: Defend the Honor, Ken Burns, mestizo, Mexicans, Xicanos

THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN keeping up with the whole Ken Burns saga have watched a long series of events play out. From being excluded from any kind of representation in a war that many Latinos died in, to hearing it rationalized as "we wanted a universal appeal" (paraphrasing, but...

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23 de Septiembre, 2007

Like a Long Awaited Dawn

Categorized under Cultura , Política Estados Unidos , Raza | Tags: Democrats, Power to the People, Republicans

For 5 years the NDN community has been telling a simple but important story - that the very rapid growth of the Hispanic community was creating a very new and powerful dynamic in the American electorate. In our new report, Hispanics Rising [pdf], NDN reviews the emerging politics of...

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16 de Septiembre, 2007

México's Dia de la Independencia

Categorized under Corazón , Cultura , Política México , Raza , día festivo | Tags: Mexicans, Mexico, Power to the People, Xicanos

THIS IS THE DAY TO SHOUT and le