Famous Artists/ Painters
This Mexican painter is known for self-portraits and paintings that explore identity, pain, and Mexican culture.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
This Mexican food consists of a folded tortilla filled with ingredients such as meat, cheese, beans, or vegetables.
What is a taco?
The name of the protagonist in the young adult novel titled The House on Mango St is ___________?
Who is Esperanza Cordero?
He was the last emperor of the Aztec Empire, ruling during the arrival of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.
Who is Moctezuma II (Montezuma)?
An Afro-Cuban music genre. People dance to me in clubs, bars, restaurants, and outside.
What is Salsa?
This metropolitan city, where OsGemeos are from, is a hub for street art and graffiti culture.
What is São Paulo?
This dish from Peru is made with raw fish or seafood cured in citrus juice, often served with onions and peppers.
What is ceviche?
Pam Muñoz Ryan wrote this novel about a young girl's migration from Mexico to California during the Great Depression.
What is Esperanza Rising?
This Venezuelan military and political leader helped lead much of South America (including Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia) to independence from Spanish rule.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
I originated from La Republicana Dominicana. There are five main instruments: three types of guitar, the bongos and the güira.
What is Bachata?
An artist who helped establish the Mural Movement in Mexico. He was most famous for his giant wall works in fresco, including a vibrant mosaic that sits on Insurgents Boulevard in Mexico City.
Who is Diego Rivera?
This Colombian and Venezuelan staple is a round corn cake that can be filled with meat, cheese, beans or avocado.
What is an arepa?
This oxymoronic title of a book we’ll read in this class was written by Víctor Villaseñor.
What is Burro Genius?
Born a free man, this military strategist and former slave led the successful rebellion that turned Saint-Domingue into the independent nation of Haiti.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
This iconic Cuban singer was known worldwide as the "Queen of Salsa"
Who is Celia Cruz?
This artist blended European modernism (like Cubism and Surrealism) with Afro-Cuban spirits, symbols, and santería mythology.
Who is Wifredo Lam?
This Argentine and Uruguayan pastry has a savory or sweet filling wrapped in dough and baked or fried.
What is an empanada?
This author wrote the novel The Kingdom of This World.
Who is Alejo Carpentier?
Born in Argentina, this physician-turned-revolutionary became a central figure in the 1959 Cuban Revolution before dying in Bolivia in 1967?
Who is Che Guevara?
This Mexican American musician who first became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American music.
Who is Carlos Santana?
This street artist has painted many color murals featuring cartoon-like figure wearing a red bird mask?
Who is Sentrock? (Joseph Anthony Perez)
This Brazilian dish is a hearty stew traditionally made with black beans and meats, commonly served with rice and other sides.
What is feijoada?
This Nicaraguan poet is known as the “father of Modernismo.”
Who is Rubén Darío?
Which poet, journalist, and revolutionary is celebrated as a national hero in Cuba for his role in fighting for the island's independence from Spain?
Who is José Martí?
This Puerto Rican actress and singer is the only Hispanic to have won all four major annual American entertainment awards, which include an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony, and was the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award.
Who is Rita Moreno?