Look! Out in the New York Mets dugout. It’s a surfboard. It’s a flip-flop. No, it’s a chancla. A what? Quick Google search. A slipper? This makes no sense. Well, it does actually. It’s almost too ...

Carmen Tafolla never had to dodge a chancla when she was a kid. The very sound of those flip-flops on her elderly tias’ rapidly approaching feet was enough to both thrill and terrify the future poet ...

On the latest episode of RAW, Rey Mysterio confronted Dominik Mysterio. The WWE Hall of Famer had a few words to say to his son, and the former also delivered a threat to ex-con Dom. Dominik Mysterio ...

For Latinos who grew up under the reign of "La Chancla" (the flip flop), the idea of corporal punishment is not a foreign one. Many of us, from the moment we could speak in full sentences, already ...

The theme of this years San Anto Cultural Arts Barrio Block Party is chanclas. Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Lmbuga The San Anto Cultural Arts Barrio Block Party will return this Friday after a two-year ...

It can be too easy to reach for la chancla. I’m talking about the flip-flop or slipper deployed as disciplinary tool on errant children that now serves as a trope of Latino parenthood. La chancla has ...

E very once in a while — not often, but often enough — the multilingual among us hear a word that sounds like something else in another language, and we get a chance to giggle like fourth graders. Hee ...

Most Latino parents still believe in physical discipline of children. That puts them in step with many Americans. But is it time to put down 'La... For Latinos who grew up under the reign of "La ...