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~ Meeting our latino/a neighbors ~
~ Encontrar a nuestros vecin@s latin@s ~
Get to know the culture of the latino world.
This page is in four sections in 3 columns:
literature & art (left),
music (center),
history & politics (right)
Who do you want us to know about?
Your suggestions are always welcome!
.... and I just thought that perhaps a section on sports/ los deportes would be fun! I know you can help me! Who are your favorite latino // latina athletes? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A few Mexican artists....
You will love the macabre but fun art of Jose Guadalupe Posada.
la musica
Jose Gonzalez y Banda Criolla Puerto Rican neighbors from Massachusetts. We love their CD ~ Caribbean Fiesta for Kids
la historia y la politica
this section is organized mostly geographically.
CONDUCT YOUR OWN SEARCH:
National_Geographic
Centro America
El Salvador:
El Salvador from National Geographic
El Salvador international travel info provided via U.S. State Dept.
Nicaragua:
Country Studies: Library of Congress
Sandinistas remember their revolt
Mexico:
National Holidays Official & Religious
Mexico's holiday and fiesta calendar : Mexico Culture & Arts
BrownPride.com : Mexican, Chicano, Latino, and Mesoamerican History
What did Mexican Hero,
Emiliano Zapata, say?
"Tierra y Libertad"
El Caribe
America del Sur
Now very popular, he died not well-known and poor, but this Mexican artist, influenced Jose Clemente Orozco, a great muralist, who saw him do his work in the shop window as he walked to school. Orozco came to New Hampshire in 1932 to paint a mural in the basement of the library at Dartmouth College. You can still see it!
Sol y Canto ~ This Boston area band has roots through out Latin America: Mexico, Peru, Panama, US, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, & Argentina! Formerly known as: Flor de cana. Check out their music for adults and ninos.
Mexican Children's Songs - Mexico - Mama Lisa's World: Children's Songs ...
Shakira - Colobiana-lebenana - performed at President Obama's inaugural.
Manu Chao es basque y galiciano
Carlos Chavez, one of Mexcios most famous composers, was like Rivera and Alvarez Bravo, part of the "Mexican Renaissance"
Read Orozco's bio link above to find out why he only had one hand.....
"If any man can be said to have changed the course of a nation's art single handed, it is Diego Rivera," says The Artchive Many of my students will remember reading one of two great books about Diego, by mother and son team, Jeanette and Jonah Winter:
Check out his interesting bio on wikipedia.
Mercedes Sosa ~Argentiniana is featured on PRI's The World's Global Hit el 5 de octubre. She has just left us!
Soledad Bravo~ Venezuelana
Silvio Rodriguez ~ Cubano
some songs:
Corridos sin Fronteras Native songs of Mexico known as corridos are introduced in both English and Spanish at this Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition.
But you gotta try this one, too. Fantastic! by Carmen T Bernier-Grand.Illustrated by David Diaz.
El fotografo de Mexico Manuel Alvarez Bravo lived to be 100 and knew Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Edward Weston.
la literatura
This Chilean poet, educator and traveler won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945, and was a teacher and mentor to....
Pablo Neruda walks the Great Wall and wrote great poems.
Try out his poems in English
or in Spanish
Or check out other Poets who wrote in Spanish.
Maestra read The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon in English and in Spanish. ...and so are people in over 40 countries!
For a bimonthly look at our hemisphere: I used to recommend this magazine published by the OAS ~ The Organization of American States : Las Américas Find great photo essays, & stories on every aspect of life past & present in North & South America. Maestra has a subscription if you want to have a look. .... Used to! recently it was discontinued. Back copies available; excellent site and resource, even now.