Cafe y Chisme Corner
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Chicano: The Identity That Started as an Insult...
The word started as an insult. Mexican-Americans in the mid-twentieth century used it to reclaim something that had been thrown at them — a clipped, informal version of mexicano, associated...
Chicano: The Identity That Started as an Insult...
The word started as an insult. Mexican-Americans in the mid-twentieth century used it to reclaim something that had been thrown at them — a clipped, informal version of mexicano, associated...
Afro-Latina: Holding Two Histories at Once
The story of what it means to be Afro-Latina is the story of what happens when two enormous histories live in the same body. It's the story of someone who...
Afro-Latina: Holding Two Histories at Once
The story of what it means to be Afro-Latina is the story of what happens when two enormous histories live in the same body. It's the story of someone who...
No Manches: Mexico's PG-13 Expletive and What I...
No manches is what you say when something surprises you, when you're mildly (or not so mildly) frustrated, when something goes wrong, or when someone does something that makes you...
No Manches: Mexico's PG-13 Expletive and What I...
No manches is what you say when something surprises you, when you're mildly (or not so mildly) frustrated, when something goes wrong, or when someone does something that makes you...
Merengue: The Dominican Rhythm That Became a Na...
Merengue is the music that doesn't wait for you to decide how you feel. The tempo is fast, the rhythm is insistent, the güira cuts through everything, and before you've...
Merengue: The Dominican Rhythm That Became a Na...
Merengue is the music that doesn't wait for you to decide how you feel. The tempo is fast, the rhythm is insistent, the güira cuts through everything, and before you've...
Bachata: The Dominican Music That Became the Wo...
Bachata began as music for the broken-hearted in the countryside of the Dominican Republic — música de amargue, music of bitterness, dismissed by Dominican elites as the sound of poverty...
Bachata: The Dominican Music That Became the Wo...
Bachata began as music for the broken-hearted in the countryside of the Dominican Republic — música de amargue, music of bitterness, dismissed by Dominican elites as the sound of poverty...
Cuba Pride: What It Means to Be Cuban in the Di...
Cuban identity in the United States is inseparable from displacement. For the first wave of Cuban exiles — those who left after 1959 — the departure was not supposed to...
Cuba Pride: What It Means to Be Cuban in the Di...
Cuban identity in the United States is inseparable from displacement. For the first wave of Cuban exiles — those who left after 1959 — the departure was not supposed to...