Cafe y Chisme Corner
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Third Culture Kid, Latino Edition: Not Quite Fr...
At my cousin's quinceañera in Guadalajara, an aunt I barely knew laughed and called me "el gringo" the second I asked her to repeat something more slowly. Two weeks later,...
Third Culture Kid, Latino Edition: Not Quite Fr...
At my cousin's quinceañera in Guadalajara, an aunt I barely knew laughed and called me "el gringo" the second I asked her to repeat something more slowly. Two weeks later,...
Indigenous Mexican Identity: Beyond the History...
My grandmother's neighbor, Doña Refugio, used to sit on her porch in Oaxaca shelling beans and switching between Spanish and Zapotec mid-sentence, depending on who she was scolding or who...
Indigenous Mexican Identity: Beyond the History...
My grandmother's neighbor, Doña Refugio, used to sit on her porch in Oaxaca shelling beans and switching between Spanish and Zapotec mid-sentence, depending on who she was scolding or who...
What It Means to Be a Dreamer, In Their Own Words
I sat with my friend Marisol at her kitchen table two years ago while she filled out a renewal form for the hundredth time, the same forms, the same fee,...
What It Means to Be a Dreamer, In Their Own Words
I sat with my friend Marisol at her kitchen table two years ago while she filled out a renewal form for the hundredth time, the same forms, the same fee,...
Mixed Latino Identity: When Your Family Comes F...
At a family party, my Mexican grandmother made tamales while my Salvadoran grandfather stood over the pupusa griddle, and I remember, at maybe seven years old, genuinely believing every family's...
Mixed Latino Identity: When Your Family Comes F...
At a family party, my Mexican grandmother made tamales while my Salvadoran grandfather stood over the pupusa griddle, and I remember, at maybe seven years old, genuinely believing every family's...
Hyphenated Identity: Why 'Mexican-American' Isn...
A classmate once asked me, with genuine curiosity and no malice, whether I felt "more Mexican or more American," like I was a pie that needed to be sliced into...
Hyphenated Identity: Why 'Mexican-American' Isn...
A classmate once asked me, with genuine curiosity and no malice, whether I felt "more Mexican or more American," like I was a pie that needed to be sliced into...
Growing Up Bilingual: The Job No One Told You W...
I was eight years old, standing next to my mother at the pharmacy counter, translating the pharmacist's instructions about my little brother's medicine while also trying to keep track of...
Growing Up Bilingual: The Job No One Told You W...
I was eight years old, standing next to my mother at the pharmacy counter, translating the pharmacist's instructions about my little brother's medicine while also trying to keep track of...