Word: latinas
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...back with a lively new book, Make Him Look Good (St. Martin's Press), which plays up Miami's music, club and modeling scenes. She spoke with Andrea Sachs, TIME's publishing reporter, about the politics of immigration, Lou Dobbs and being labeled as Latina...
...feel comfortable acting as a Latina spokeswoman, or is that an ambivalent role...
...depends who puts that label on me and what their purposes are. It's like being called a "funny Jew" by Mel Brooks, or being called a "funny Jew" by Hitler. They're going to have very different goals in the label. So if a Latina magazine says that I'm a Latina writer, that's okay with me because I think they understand that that's a very diverse group of people. You can be of any race, any religion, any socio-economic background. It's almost a make-believe category. But there was a paper in New York...
...everyone who is Latino is Mexican, even at a place like Harvard where there are Latinos representing all the Latin American countries,” she writes in an e-mail. Herrera is not alone in her desire to straighten out such views. Four years ago, members of Fuerza Latina, a pan-Latino student organization at Harvard, decided to produce an artistic exhibition with the aim of showcasing the wealth and diversity of Latino art. This Saturday, “Presencia Latina” will be making its fourth annual performance at Lowell Lecture Hall, showing once...
...coalition has received the support of many student organizations, including the Harvard Democrats, the Radcliffe Union of Students, and Fuerza Latina...