Margaret A. Lindauer, Devouring Frida: The Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida Kahlo Wesleyan U. Press, 1999
Frida Kahlo's life and work are world famous -- yet what has become of the Mexican artist's radical politics? Art historian Margaret A. Lindauer argues that Kahlo's artistic legacy has been done a disservice by those who would read the painter's works off her personal life, instead of looking at the complex intellectual and political processes that created them.
Terry Bisson, "John Brown -- 150 Years After Harpers Ferry" Monthly Review (Oct. 2009)
Paco Ignacio Taibo II, 68 Seven Stories Press, 2004
On the 150th anniversary of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, author Terry Bisson talks about Brown's legacy, as well as his own radical activism in the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, science fiction, and the evangelical Left Behind novels. And celebrated novelist Paco Ignacio Taibo speaks about the dark years following the massacre of students in Mexico City in 1968.
Adrian Burgos Jr., Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line U.C. Press, 2007
Lydia by Octavio Solis at Marin Theatre Company
Jackie Robinson is a towering figure, but Black Latinos like Minnie Minoso were integration pioneers as well. Adrian Burgos Jr. puts baseball's racial past in a transnational context and describes how Jim Crow and integration affected Black Latinos. Also, Octavio Solis has written an explosive play about a Mexican American family on the border.
Hayden Herrera, Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo Harper Perennial
Elizabeth Carpenter, ed., Frida Kahlo Walker Art Center, 2007
Radical, bisexual, plagued by pain, an exceptional painter: all these describe Frida Kahlo, known the world over for her self-portraits, for her turbulent relationship with Diego Rivera, and for her ability to touch people of different backgrounds with her dramatic imagery. Curator/biographer Hayden Herrera and SFMOMA curator Alison Gass discuss Kahlo's life, work and legacy, as well as the current SFMOMA exhibition.
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