Rita Indiana: No la llamen Lady Gagá
Rita Indiana es un fenómeno por varias razones y esta entrevista que le hice la semana pasada es una de mis favoritas. Rita Indiana se…
Autor: Ed Morales
Ha escrito para The Nation, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Daily News and Newsday. Es autor de varios libros: Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture (2018); Living in Spanglish (St. Martins) y The Latin Beat (Da Capo Press). En el 2009 codirigió "Whose Barrio?", un documental galardonado sobre los cambios demográficos (gentrification) en East Harlem. Actualmente dicta clases en el Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race de Columbia University.
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My life in Nueva York
The amazing thing about “Día,” a photographic exhibition recently shown in the arty Brooklyn neighborhood known as DUMBO, is how it records the birth of the Nuyorican.
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Suspension of Disbelief
There we were, watching the situation room, where the inner circle of the United States’ executive branch and military command was watching the virtual assassination of someone deemed eligible for…
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Reza por Robi (Draco)
I met Robi around ’94-’95 at the Mayflower Hotel near Columbus Circle; he was working with a prolific manager of Mexican rock bands who were also staying there, but he was a man apart.
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La nación imaginaria
Entre los de la Isla y los del Barrio; los de aquí y los de allá. Ed Morales nos habla de "la nación imaginaria", los Nuyoricans, Americans, del charco que cruzamos a menudo y de cómo no podemos reducir la isla a sentimientos.
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Fear and Loathing in San Juan
In a conversation I had with Del Toro in 1998, while promoting Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, he assured me that HunterThompson, would call him and say things like “You’re one of those New Age actors with a Rio Piedras mentality.”
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Narcissus and the Internet Revolution
Like it or not, the internet revolution has set off a storm of analysis that seems to pit younger against older generaciones to debate the merits of inherently narcissistic capitalist tools like Facebook and Twitter as political organizers.
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Discurso civil and the End Times
I think I first became aware of this millennial fever when a Manhattan cab driver who dodged the Vietnam War draft waxed poetic about how Zbignew Bresinski started the muhajadeen during the Jimmy Carter administration to get the godless Russians out of Afghanistan.
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Tea Party’s Rum Diaries
Las combinaciones que hace el gobierno actual entre aliados y amiguetes de la derecha ya no sorprenden. Acá un discurso para salvar empleos, pero entre ellos hablan claro de una agenda al servicio de los grandes intereses.
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Páginas en Blanco
The Wikileaks phenomenon is remarkable because it seems to overtake whatever passes for “the discourse” (el discurso) and explodes from within any notion of a temporal news cycle, illuminating a…
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El Viento te da Sorpresas
Si quieres estar a salvo (alive) en Nueva York hay que pensar en la música de Viento de Agua... "is the Placita in all of us, the place you get la fruta madura".
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Claro que es hazy
When The New York Times runs a story with the headline “Report Shows Plight of Puerto Rican Youth,” nuestra comunidad nuyorriqueña reacciona...first recognition, then nostalgia, y por último a kind of angry resignation.
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Who will speak for us?
Saludos desde Nuyorico, la capital de la diáspora puertorriqueña, donde vivimos la crisis de la globalización en plena calle. The unforgiving streets where el ataque contra lo que planteamos como “la…
