If white America’s majority is eroding in the face of Latino growth, how can the former continue to justify its leadership of the country?
Categories: North America, United States
Category: United States
Symbolic separation
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Patricia Riggen’s first feature, La misma luna, challenges the stereotypes that have so far defined the illegal Mexican immigrant
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Memories of extinction
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A classic tale by Cristina García of two Cuban women bound by blood and destiny has become strangely relevant today
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States
Dreaming in Cuban
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Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States
Empowered bastards
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Michael Caylo-Baradi analyses how Los bastardos by Mexican director Amat Escalante reverses the power dynamic for California’s undocumented labourers Image courtesy of Kino International
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
The loyal traitor
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Rosario Ferré’s A la sombra de tu nombre may allude to the shadow cast culturally across her native Puerto Rico
Categories: Caribbean, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
The poverty of abundance
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The dynamic US-Mexico borderlands provide a valuable opportunity to explore the role ‘necessity’ plays in contemporary consumer culture
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Lost city… and opportunity
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The Lost City was a labour of love for Andy Garcia but offers a strangely disconnected and predictably loaded vision of Cuban political history
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States
The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela
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Categories: North America, South America, United States, Venezuela
A most Latin American Latino
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Poema establishes the Colombian-born Maurice Kilwein Guevara as the most ‘Latin American’ of Latino poets in the US, argues Francisco Aragón
Categories: Colombia, North America, South America, United States