Music
This music of this Puerto Rican singer, rapper, and songwriter is often defined as Latin trap and reggaeton, but has incorporated various other genres into his music including rock, bachata, and soul. One of his most popular songs is “Hasta que Dios Diga.”
Who is Bad Bunny?
This musical follows the Latinx residents of a Barrio in New York City. Puerto Rican-American composer Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the music and lyrics for this production.
What is In the Heights?
Author of Borderlands: La Frontera, this queer, Chicana author is best known for writing on Chicana, queer and feminist theory.
Who is Gloria Anzaldua?
This Mexican remake of the original Argentine telenovela series follows the students of Elite Way School who form a band called RBD.
What is Rebelde?
This Supreme Court Judge was nominated by President Barack Obama in 2009 and is the first Hispanic and Latina member of the court.
Who is Sonya Sotomayer?
This Cuban-American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman started her career as the lead singer in the group Miami Latin Boys, which later became known as Miami Sound Machine. One of her most popular songs is “Conga.”
Who is Gloria Estefan?
This highly dramaticized style of dance was created by Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ individuals as a form of creative expression.
What is voguing?
This Dominican-American writer is best known for her novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, a book focusing on assimilation and identity.
Who is Julia Alvarez?
This Mexican telenovela is named after its protagonist, a young woman obsessed with finding money and power. The series is based on another Mexican telenovela of the same name that aired in 1959.
What is Teresa?
These protests in 2019-2020 began due to the high inequities in this Latin American country, the increased metro prices, and negative feelings towards the leaders. The citizens of this country are set to vote for a referendum on rewriting their Constitution.
What are the Chilean protests?
This Mexican singer, songwriter, and actor was most known for his flamboyant style, which broke barriers within the Latin music market. He was colloquially nicknamed as Juanga and El Divo de Juárez. One of his most popular songs is “Querida.”
Who is Juan Gabriel?
This Chicana singer, songwriter, and fashion designer was known as the “Queen of Tejano Music” and is one of the most celebrated Mexican-American entertainers of the 20th century.
Who is Selena Quintanilla?
This Spanish novela was written by Honduran author Ramón Amaya Amado and focuses on children who go to work as shoe shiners primarily due to the deaths of their fathers.
What is Cipotes?
A scene from this classic 1995 telenovela became the meme “cries in spanish,” in which a woman cries dramatically.
What is Maria la del Barrio?
This American Engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Who is Dr. Ellen Ochoa?
This Puerto Rican reggaeton and Latin trap singer is known simply by his surname. All of his studio albums have reached the top of the Billboard Top Latin Albums. One of his most popular songs is “Mamacita.”
Who is Ozuna?
Starring as Anita in the award-winning musical, West Side Story, this Puerto Rican actress was the first Latina to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
Who is Rita Moreno?
This genre of Latinx literature became popular in the middle of the nineteenth century as a means of fighting against colonizing forces and cherishing the national culture.
What is Resistance Literature?
This Uruguayan-Mexican actress is best known for being the lead in Rubi, one of the most successful telenovelas of all time.
Who is Barbara Mori Ochoa?
Name this revolution which was the first major revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico.
What is El Grito de Lares? What is the Lares revolt/revolution/protest?
This style of music originated in Puerto Rico during the late 1990s by Black artists who were influenced by bomba, American hip-hop, and Jamaican reggae. Although created by Black artists, this genre has become dominated by lighter-skinned artists.
What is reggaeton?
This Black, Puerto Rican baseball player played for Pirates in the mid to late 1900s. He was the first Latin American and Carribean player to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Who is Roberto Clemente?
Dr. Lorgia Garcia-Pena wrote this widely acclaimed book in which she explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders while highlighting how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic Haitians, and Dominicans living abroad have contested these dominant narratives and their violent, silencing, and exclusionary effects.
What is The Borders of Dominicanidad?
More than a dozen versions of this Columbian telenovela have been made in other countries due to the popularity of the plot including versions from the US, Mexico, and Thailand.
What is Betty la Fea?
Celebrated on October 12 (the same day as Chi Chapter’s founding), this celebration focuses on the Hispanic heritage of Latin America and brings into it all the ethnic and cultural influences making it distinctive.
What is Raza Day?