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I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost overwhelmed with the...more

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Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

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The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, in...more

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...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

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Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink wh...more

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I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

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Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

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Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.

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This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.