A SWEET AND SPICY MEMORY: BISCOCHITOS IN NEW MEXICO CULTURE
By Vanessa Baca
“Biscochitos have a far deeper significance than being just sweet treats. They represent family roots. It is the rare Hispanic New Mexico family that does not have its own recipe for biscochitos.”
CELEBRATING THE DEAD: DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS AND ALL HALLOWE’EN
By Nicolasa Chávez
“Many people do not know the origins of this fun – and fright-filled night, nor of the similarities its origins share with Día de los Muertos.”
MIGUEL TRUJILLO
By Gordon Bronitsky
“What was it about the postwar situation in New Mexico that encouraged Indians – and Trujillo in particular — to push for the right to vote?”
WHY IS EL PASO IN TEXAS?
By Ellen Dornan
“Today, Southern New Mexicans frequently cross the border to El Paso, TX to enjoy shopping and entertainment, perhaps appreciating the culture without understanding the long history of why El Paso feels so much more familiar than other Texas communities. Arguably, El Paso is the oldest New Mexican settlement. So how did it end up in Texas?”
HISPASIAN
By Melissa Auh Krukar
“The questions are always the same: ‘Where are you from?’ or worse, ‘Where are you really from?’ or worse yet, ‘What are you?'”
GROWING UP “COYOTA” IN NEW MEXICO
By Nicolasa Chávez
“Did being a coyote make me any less New Mexican? What exactly did it mean to be a ‘Coyota’ in New Mexico?”
ART CANNOT BE CAGED: DETAINED MIGRANT YOUTH CREATE AN EXHIBIT
By Kayla Myers
“’Uncaged Art Tornillo Children’s Detention Center’ is fundamentally about Central American children who came to our nation seeking security and safety and found themselves incarcerated within the walls of a sterile detention center built in the Chihuahuan Desert.”
THE FOOL’S JOURNEY
By Bethany Tabor
“It’s impossible to travel through Albuquerque without encountering at least one beautiful, larger-than-life mural on the side of a building or wall.”
MANITO
By Leeanna Teresa Martinez y Torres
“Manito: Examining and Deconstructing New Mexico’s Tri-Cultural Myth; ‘Patterns of Migration’
Mama’s easy, un-flinching and quick-to-respond reply to this unfamiliar term, word, name, was curious to me. Manito.”
LÁGRIMAS: POEMS OF JOY AND SADNESS
By Nasario García
“I was fascinated by rural life in the desert where the landscape, the sky, the animals, the birds, and the people brought both happiness and sorrow to my heart, but at the same time each one inveigled my imagination.”