Mexican-American Flappers-Lazy at the Metate
Flappers with bobbed hair in 1920s America were not just Anglos. Mexican Americans in Texas also bobbed their hair. Here’s a translation of a song, Las Pelonas, the bobbed hairs. …
Read moreWhich fruit was the biggest illegal in the US?
Yup. The humble tejocote (teh-HO-cot-ay). In a great article in the LA Times, fruit expert David Karp explains why this was and how it is changing.
Read moreTwo Great Deserts: Sonora and Arabia Deserta
A couple of days ago I finally got around to reading Gary Nabhan’s book Arab/American. I was entranced as Nabhan, best known for his work on the ecology of the…
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