Does Our Genetic Heritage Define Us?
When it comes to your identity, there is your biology and there is your culture. And then there is you.
Political Tribes Are Forever
With politics becoming as rigidly a part of one’s identity as race or generation group, asking a conservative to vote Democrat is like asking them to drink kale smoothies while listening to NPR in their Prius.
“Munchie Sexual”: New Music from Musaraña
Musaraña, a project by María Laboy and Andres Rigau, is a surreal genre-blending experiment with avant-garde ideas through visual art and music
Salsa or Sofrito?
Hector chats with Dr. Kim Potowski, a professor of Spanish linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of ‘IntraLatino Language and Identity: MexiRican Spanish’
Trigueño Supremacy
No one understands that race is imaginary better than someone who’s multiracial
Belonging
Hector chats with Aaron E. Sánchez, a history professor at Dallas College whose new book, ‘Homeland: Ethnic Mexican Belonging Since 1900,’ discusses the political and cultural aspects of Mexican identity in the United States
The Mexican in Me
Claiming a Mexicanness outside Mexicanness
Soul at Home
Hector chats with Jose Alicea, the man behind Souletri, which has been streaming live performances across its social media channels throughout the pandemic
