Two concerned Aztlán citizens
Yonderliesit.org received two rather interesting emails from two concerned Aztlán citizens just a little less than what it took you to read this. On the one hand, one email writer, mind you, at yonderliesit.org we faithfully hold to the anonymous right…
Read MoreViva Chicano Lit
The Republic of East L.A. – Stories (2002) by Luis J. Rodriguez I am invariably always surprised at the ease with which I can understand Chicano literature. I can see right throught it. I figure it must be the cultural baggage. I mean I understand…
Read MoreTijuana, Tercera Nación
Yo me considero Xicano, con x. Un Xicano de Tijuana, o un Xicano Mexicano como la veo para distinguirme de mis paisas los Xicanos de Los, Californios y todo, soy una minoría. No todos en Tijuana comparten esta visión de que Tijuana es parte de Aztlán.…
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I consider myself a Xicano, with an x mind you. A Xicano from Tijuana or a Xicano mexicano as I see it in order to disntinguish myself from my brethen on the other side of the border, Californios and all. But in reality am no more than a minority. Not…
Read Morewachatelas ese
The phoneme /w/ [a voiced labio-velar approximant, lip rounding] has multiple and productive sounds in the spanglish and espanglish Xicano community. For us there are choices to be made between: Gíüey, huey and wey Gíüero, huero and wero What, guat and…
Read MoreWhat they said
These days I find myself deeply fond of XX century thinking. From Volume IV Number IV The New Criterion A Quarterly Review October 1926 New York Chronicle: Gilbert Seldes There is an attitude of mind familiar to observers of American intellectuals which…
Read MoreEn el otro lado
I went to the beach in Tijuana. It was crowded on Sunday, it was sizzling hot. So yeah, there are we, strolling, me and my friend. So I tell him, let us go to the fence. It was already corroded, the sea salt did it and the stupid army surplus material…
Read Moreun poco de Espanglish
Recientemente Osito came up con la idea of a diccionario en spanglish. I wholeheartedly think que es viable. Pero one must be careful sobre las variantes de spanglish. There is lo que I call Spanglish and (e)spanglish (otherwise known as border lingo).…
Read MoreLa Virgen de Guadalupe
Well, I went and did it, not planned, not anything, just out of the clear blue sky, there we go. Would you believe that of all the places in the world for me to find another Xicano would be there? Well, I did, I was minding my own business looking around…
Read MoreYa tenemos un Tijuanense en la legislatura Californiana, damn were good! Via el Grito SACRAMENTO – When he was just a skinny kid in mismatched clothes, Fabian Núñez brokered his first deals: He helped his Spanish-speaking father negotiate…
Read MoreSaludos a todos los diseñadores mexicanos, espero poder compartir trucos y tecnicas de diseño con todos.
Read MoreBill Richardson, Ruben Salazar, Pedro J. Gonzales, & Henry Gonzales
Curiously enough I had built high expectations regards these past few days. I was particularly enthused by the announcement of the Democratic party declaring that the response to President Bush State of the Union address would be retorted in Spanish by…
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