Xicanos as latinos
Whether Xicanismo likes it or not there is a latino force outhere to be reckoned with and it must embrace it. I say this because I have just been listening to Pepito for the past two days, an SF based band with ties to my birth city of Tijuana and a lad…
Read MoreMexicanos de Segunda Mano
Forma y Fondo pusó unas fotos típicas y reveladoras sobre mi ciudad. Tijuana, he descubierto de reciente, no es la mexicana que se dice ser. Nosotros no podemos ser mexicanos como lo pinta el Estado, como lo ha venido pintando desde antaño por miedo a…
Read MorePredeterminación
Ayer estuve en Dinamarca. Y me hizo caer en cuenta de un proceso mental que de hace rato me tiene zumbando los oidos con sus ideas locas. Resulta que yo creo en la predeterminación, un concepto que mi Xicanismo ha recojido en las lecturas que he hecho de…
Read MoreIt rains in the plains of Sweden
Well I can officially kiss the suntan I adquiered during my sojourn in México adios. Its been raining cats and dogs in Sweden for 6 weeks in a row now and that means I will probably miss not only the summer the rest of the planet is probably indulging…
Read MoreTijuana Pocho ¿so qué?
Nuestros amigos en la blogesfera, HB, Burgues y el autor de Bukonica con acento en la o y todo, han expresado un sentimiento que bien saben ha causado fricción, amén que nuestro compa allá en Desde La Frontera nos confirma con sus relatos sobre sus…
Read MoreWhen thoughts dawn upon one
Remember my post unscathed and alive whereby i related a blogsphere incident regards Tijuana identity? What i failed to take into account and just dawned upon me to tell my Xicana/o readership (is one allowed to use indiscriminately the suffix –ship…
Read MoreWarrior-Poet of the Fifth Sun
The good offices of Aztecpoet.com were kind enough to send me via internet Luis A. López recent book titled Warrior-Poet of the Fifth Sun, innercircle publishing 2004. I must confess that if poetry has the quality to speak to the soul, Luis’s book not…
Read MoreOn Reies Lopez Tijerina & Reuters
I often find it amazing how America Gringa refuses to acknowledge some of its own history, twist it and bedmake it to sleep with the Other in its own house. I suppose it is easier for Gringo USA to see its own population thus. It is afterall, easier to…
Read MoreThat Pocho thang again
I am ocassionally given to the reading of books which I, more often than not, peruse more than finish when the need arises to let time pass by in an adequate manner. So whenever I find myself answering the calls of mother nature I am of the habit of…
Read Moreunscathed and alive
The sad truth is that I might be the only one advocating Aztlán in Tijuana, but like in the movie, if you call them they will come. You think there is resistance to America still in Aztlán? truth be told I haven’t the slightest idea. I suppose that…
Read MoreMagonista por life
Recuerda muy bien sus lecciones de historia, como las dos naciones partieron líneas políticas a sangre y fuego, mas prefería la historia local de su ciudad, porque se le hacía más relevante ver las fotos aquellas que casi parecian daguerrotypes donde…
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