The LATAM-US Divide on Who is “Latina”
…American society. Regardless of how our stories have been changed and molded by colonization, immigration, and assimilation, Latin America heritage – as broad as it may be – is enough….
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"My Dead Friend Zoe" Is a Different Veteran Film
…(Utkarsh Ambudkar). The cinematic colonel of this project is writer/director Kyle Hausmann-Stokes. A veteran of the Army, he served five years as a US Army paratrooper in Iraq, earned a…
"La Guagua Aérea" and the Not So Promised Land
…the character of Orlando Colón (Ángel F. Rivera), an arrogant Puerto Rican businessman who frequently travels between the archipelago and New York City. Mostly speaking in Spanglish, his voice drips…
Visually Stunning, "Dune: Part Two" is Otherwise Same Old
…the way, the film touches up, but never goes into, themes of white savior, colonialism, religious manipulation of native people, and working-class uprisings. Performances Vary from Amazing to Passable Zendaya…
5 Latinx Textbooks That Tell Our True History
…teaches us the U.S. history missing from the “mainstream.” The tome covers five centuries in the U.S. – “from the European colonization of the Americas to the 2020 election.” For…
Q+A With Raquel Reichard, Author of ‘Self-Care For Latinas’
…that context dives into issues like colonialism, xenophobia, sexism, transphobia, family separation, and anti-blackness — all of these different things, because for me you have to. As women who are…
"The Crown," a Royal Soap Opera with Historical Undertones, to the End
At the end of the first episode of Netflix’s The Crown Season 6, Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) enters her Kensington Palace rooms. She finds them filled with red and fuschia…
“Érase Una Vez en El Caribe” Because There’s No Sugarcoating Colonization
…another casualty of colonization. Which brings me to another point the film tackles surrounding our socio-economic-political label ‘U.S. territory’ (code for colony). Director and screenwriter Figueroa plays with juxtaposition, not…
Authors
ADIFF Adriana Santos Adrienne Nicole Levario Alan Baez Alejandra Martinez, MSIS Alejandra Medina Alexa De La Fuente Alexis Terrazas Alicia Ramírez Alisha Fernandez Miranda Alyssa Lizarraga Alyssa Reynoso Morris Ana…
“I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me” Plays with Belief to Lampoon Colonialism
…low expectations of Latinx art. It plays expertly with its elements, juxtaposing its comic elements with growing suspense to make a taught work of social commentary that lampoons colonialism. And…