Kategori: Aztlan
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help, I can’t figure out a title for this post
The good xente over at la bloga have a good discussion going on. Not because the comments of the offices at Yonder Lies It received an answer but because it is clear to the xente del más allá, who for an odd reason of sorts, frecuent the offices, seem to be in agreement (though Geronimo…
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Tejaztlán
I’ve seen Califas. Writing Califas in a piece of paper or anywhere else, your left buttock, for example, means that Aztlán is not too far from you. Usually the address is Califas, Aztlán. I suppose that Tejas would be the one to drape it self with the word Aztlán all over. Like a sarape from…
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Tifton: my kind of heroes
TIFTON — Saddened by the killings of six Mexican immigrants in his town, Mayor Paul Johnson flew their country’s flag outside his City Hall in their honor. Foreign flags weren’t a first for the south Georgia city — Canadian flags routinely fly outside motels there in honor of snowbirds who drive through to spend their…
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del color de la tierra need not apply
Leyendo y releyendo la noticia que atrajo la atención, más bien, los sueños húmedos de buti mexicanos y mexicanos. Señores, damas, he aquí el racismo latente de los mexicanos: La boda de Genoveva y Cayetano es, sin duda, la segunda más sonada en España […] Con el enlace, la mexicana de 26 años, tez muy…
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Correle, pero si ya
I got a hold of this post on Shovelware. Go read it, it’s full of godies from the San Diego-Tijuana border area, my area. And more text related theories on Xicanismo, links and what not. It’s an update, I know, am munching it as we speak, qué esperas, órale! I may spit out a few…
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untitled yu-7
Writing in blogs has given me a distaste for much of what I deem cultural ideologies. For me, this means the one that says we are descendents of spaniards and aztecs. I now laugh when I hear people in my surroundings expressing admiration at this ’fact’. I generally feel repulse at what europeans have done…
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Holy crap!
Alma Lopez has a blog! I’ll be damned homes! …
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The ultra rich hitman
El fact of the matter es que el mundo is just ripe enough para algo. Qué algo no sé. Mas el sistema que cunde por el mundo doesn’t necessarily apply to the structures that govern us. Governments try to play the ethics rule for the majority pero la minority that rules the world no juega…
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Nipon object #4
Only once it stood there a japanese wooden artifact T’was I who saw it the most staring at it endlessly I cried laughter and tears of joy rolled I stared at it on and on sliding through its curves one by one I relished the emotional ride I pondered the relation the space between me…
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Así piensa mi xente
Luis Valdez: “Somos como extras†Los chicanos ante Hollywood Columba Vértiz Luis Valdez y Edward James Olmos, acaso los dos más grandes creadores del cine y el teatro en California, Estados Unidos, cuentan a Proceso la reticencia de “la Meca del cine†ante el arte chicano, hablan del desconocimiento que existe sobre el mundo latino,…