by Lisa Rathje | Sep 3, 2024
Un choque. Choque pi ta pom ta ria. Choque pom. Pi ta. Pi pi pi ta. Ta ria. Choque pom. Ta ria ria pi ta ria ria pi ta ria ria pi ta choque pom. Pom pom. The onomatopoeia of the castañuelas speaks out. They are the disruptive force in the colonially induced quiet of...
by Lisa Rathje | Sep 2, 2024
Migrations are processes that disrupt, reshape, and reconceptualize places and cultures through the movement of people. Who have been migrants and what are their stories as they journey from the regions they leave and into the regions they travel to and through? What...
by Lisa Rathje | Aug 31, 2024
So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed 床前明月光 chuáng qián míng yuè guāng Could there have been a frost already 疑是地上霜 yí shì dì shàng shuāng Lifting my head to look / I found that it was moonlight ...
by Lisa Rathje | Aug 31, 2024
As folklorists and colleagues working inside and beyond academia, we are dedicated to building the field of Asian American folklore. In late 2021, we launched “Yellow and Brown Tales: Asian American Folklife Today,” a podcast that highlights the...
by Lisa Rathje | Aug 30, 2024
Excerpt from Eddie Vega’s poem, “I didn’t write this poem for you,” (2019, 76), illustrated by Lisa Rathje. In 2023, the Pew Research Center published information about how Latinas/os/es in the United States view Spanish language in their lives.1 The study...
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