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‘Coco,’ Guillermo del Toro win Golden Globe awards
Latinos and Latino-themed movies won big in some of the top categories at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday. Disney Pixar’s ‘Coco‘ won a Golden Globe for Best Animated […]
We sang in Spanish, fell in love with ‘Coco’ — Latino culture trumped hate in 2017
If you’re a Latino in America — or Latinx, the gender-neutral the younger generation prefers — the national landscape felt particularly brutal this year, the stinging divisive words of President […]
How a harsh criticism turned ‘Coco’ into Pixar’s most uniquely made movie yet
Director Lee Unkrich was hot off the box office success and Oscar win for 2010’s “Toy Story 3” when he delved into making a movie that focused on the Mexican […]
Narco Cultura and the reality behind Narcocorridos
By Maria Hinojosa, Latino USA Photojournalist and film director Shaul Schwarz’s new documentary Narco Cultura contrasts Mexico’s drug violence with the music and fandom of narcocorridos–a style of music that celebrates the […]
Stereotypes and ‘Coconuts’: Life In The Latino Middle Class
By Leslie Berestein Rojas, Southern California Public Radio Click on picture to read story. [Photo by Leslie Berestein Rojas/KPCC]
A Coconut’s Guide To Getting Or Keeping Street Cred
There are many subtle categories on the Latino continuum, and we here at The Daily Refried offices recognize that El Guapo is the face, voice, and mind of all shades […]
Coconut-Cajeta Paletas
By Melissa Pitts My experience has been that coconut is one of those black and white issues. Either you love it or hate it. I for one cannot get enough […]
Narcocorridos Try To Make Violence Into A “Culture”
[Editor’s Note: Wuicho Vargas is a writer who lives in McAllen, Texas.] I’m from Guadalupe Nuevo León, and currently we are experiencing a massive, red wave of pure, exquisite, and […]
How One Woman Is Fighting To Get More Latino Movie Roles
When casting director Carla Hool moved to Los Angeles from Mexico City in 2011, she found stereotypical Latino movie roles written without much depth: “The gardener, the immigrant who crossed the […]
Latino directors, movies may nab major Oscars, but once again, no actors
As the 90th Academy Awards approaches, the nominations garnered by Pixar’s “Coco,” Chile’s “A Fantastic Woman” and Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy-horror “The Shape of Water” may very well triumph as some of […]