REFLECTIONS ON THE BLACK FOOTPRINT IN NEW MEXICO
By Darryl Wellington
“Let’s begin with a story that reflects my concerns that the Black presence isn’t significantly appreciated — but that simultaneously reaffirms my belief in the importance of teaching New Mexican Black history.”
A MUSLIM FITTING INTO NEW MEXICO
By Ryqir Haden
“I am a Muslim, and I belong in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Surprised? So am I.”
HEALER OF THE UNSEEN: DR. META L. CHRISTY
By Ina Jane
“As the first Black female doctor of osteopathy, she set the standard for exemplary medical and community service.”
“OUTRIDERS: LEGACY OF THE BLACK COWBOY” NARRATING THE RICH HISTORY OF THE BLACK COWBOY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
By Ariana Kramer
“Outriders: Legacy of the Black Cowboy depicts information that is little known in terms of the role that African Americans played in the settling and development of the Western United States.”
SHIKATAGANAI — IT CAN’T BE HELPED
By Shelley Takeuchi
“May is now designated as Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.”
FISH NOT FLESH: SYMBOLISM OF THE NEW MEXICO LENTEN FEAST
By Vanessa Baca
“Ultimately, it is the return to life after the darkness of death that is at the heart of Lent and Easter Sunday, and it is this contrast that is represented in the food eaten by New Mexico Catholics.”
ENCOUNTERING NEW MEXICO
By Darryl Wellington
“I was aware that New Mexico was heavily Indigenous and Hispanic. It did not lack people of color. But I soon learned I was not completely mistaken in immediately worrying how race was constructed here, in terms of post-colonial oppression, and whether the absence of blackness might mean the preeminence of whiteness.”
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?”
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.”