Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art

Is Latino art an integral part of modern American art? Presenting over one hundred major artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Our America seeks to "recalibrate" enduring concepts about American national culture by exploring how one group of artists—those of Latin American descent and heritage—express their relationship to American art, history, and culture.

E. Carmen Ramos addresses the whole issue of the definition of "Latino art" and how this emerged within the context of the...