Tuesday, December 25, 2018

La Negrada



Jorge Pérez Solano's La Negrada (Black Mexicans) trains a dispassionate but thoroughly captivating lens on the lugubrious lives of a dozen dispossessed Afro-Mexicans in Oaxaca coastal villages, where isolation and insulation are heirlooms, like votive candles and fishing boats.

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The Five Chinese Brothers

  I start volunteering with a reading program at a neighborhood grammar school this week, and I've been reflecting on my experience with...