Ep7w/Roberto Alfaro: Mexico City to LA to Memphis, Poetry, The Mysterious Pachita, La Catrina & Classism in Mexico The Mid-South Bugalu Podcast

This episode is a recorded interview with Memphis poet, free thinker, and my good friend Roberto Alfaro. (slight audio issues) In our conversation, we discuss:Mexican IdentityMexican-African American relations in MemphisPoetryRoberto's experience growing up in MemphisThe story of a mysterious mystic and shaman woman known as PachitaLa Catrina as a memento mori and satircal response to classism in post-colonial MexicoSistema de castas and race in Latin AmericaMesoamerican/Pr...