Latino Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/latino/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:23:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Latino Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/latino/ 32 32 Goodbye “West Side Story” https://www.publicbooks.org/goodbye-west-side-story/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:00:02 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48245 Many Latinxs—the nation’s largest ethnic group & most avid movie consumers—think the nation’s most beloved musical on racial tolerance is racist.

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]]> Cuba & the US: Necessary Mirrors https://www.publicbooks.org/cuba-ada-ferrer-1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-slavery/ Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:00:35 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48194 Exponentially more enslaved Africans were forced to the lands that now make up Latin America rather than the United States. Where is their story?

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]]> Reading with Strangers https://www.publicbooks.org/reading-with-strangers/ Fri, 13 Apr 2018 15:00:32 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=20063 On a visit to Bogotá in 2006, riding on the then new TransMilenio bus rapid transit system, I discovered that it sponsored Libro al Viento (Books on the Wind), a series of free publications distributed at bus stops, markets, and municipal services offices.1 In 2007, I learned that 50,000 Chileans had submitted entries to the […]

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]]> Making Labor Visible: An Interview with Ramiro Gomez https://www.publicbooks.org/making-labor-visiblean-interview-with-ramiro-gomez/ Thu, 01 Sep 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/making-labor-visiblean-interview-with-ramiro-gomez/ The work of Ramiro Gomez draws attention to the domestic workers and day laborers upon whose ministrations luxury lifestyles depend …

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]]> Impunity https://www.publicbooks.org/impunity/ Mon, 15 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/impunity/ Human skin turns the color of lead as the body loses blood. It’s one of the physical signs, perceivable at plain sight in a homicide victim, marking the boundary between life and death. Another is the color of the blood itself, from the almost translucent, still glistening red of those recently massacred, to the blackening […]

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]]> Master of the Flying Nothing https://www.publicbooks.org/master-of-the-flying-nothing/ Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/master-of-the-flying-nothing/ This is the latest installment of El Mirador, an ongoing series curated by Francisco Cantú. Spanish for “the lookout point,” El Mirador collects original nonfiction, translation, and visual art on the American West, the US/Mexico borderlands, and Indian Country. Wrestling is based on iconography, on signatures. Wrestlers work in signature moves, in signature styles, in catchphrases and slogans […]

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]]> Breaking Down Walls at the Havana Biennial https://www.publicbooks.org/breaking-down-walls-at-the-havana-biennial/ Sun, 01 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/breaking-down-walls-at-the-havana-biennial/ The Malecón, Havana’s five miles of curving, spray-soaked seawall and esplanade, is both magnificent and intimate. Since the early 20th century, it has been the site for evening promenades, a meeting spot for lovers, and a place for fishermen to cast their lines. The far side of its roadway used to be fronted with elegant […]

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]]> A Bus Ride in Old Mexico https://www.publicbooks.org/a-bus-ride-in-old-mexico/ Mon, 21 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/a-bus-ride-in-old-mexico/ This is the latest installment of El Mirador, an ongoing series curated by Francisco Cantú. Spanish for “the lookout point,” El Mirador collects original nonfiction, translation, and visual art on the American West, the US/Mexico borderlands, and Indian Country. The bus from Hermosillo had rimmed out and leveled off on top of the Sierra Madre to […]

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]]> Cassandra, Retiring https://www.publicbooks.org/cassandra-retiring/ Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/cassandra-retiring/ I spent a good portion of 2010 playing the Cassandra, mongering doom and gloom about the heat death of the alternative comics universe.1 Despite some important works—chief among them James Sturm’s Market Day, Chris Ware’s Lint (an entry in his ongoing Rusty Brown), and Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon’s remarkable miniseries, Daytripper—ominous signs seemed unmistakable: […]

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]]> The Restless Storyteller: An Interview With Laura Bolaños Cadena https://www.publicbooks.org/the-restless-storyteller-an-interview-with-laura-bolanos-cadena/ Sun, 15 Dec 2013 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/the-restless-storyteller-an-interview-with-laura-bolanos-cadena/ Historia Semanal de Amor y Pasión (Weekly Story of Love and Passion) is one of those pocket-size Mexican comic books you may have read or seen—they’re called historietas. The covers are illustrated in eye-popping colors, and the drama inside is high and often fast. One of the most twisty and gripping issues I’ve read contained […]

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