Embracing the Choque

Embracing the Choque

  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...

Teaching to Disrupt the Narrative of Presence

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...

Finding a Second Jia (Home)

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           ...

Hearing Home Through a Podcast of Asian American Tales

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...

I didn’t write this for you!

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...