Word: latinas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Before covering Latin America, I'd reported on the Tamil Tiger guerrillas in Sri Lanka. The Tiger women were spooky: They wore cyanide pills around their necks to be consumed in the event of capture, and dozens of them trained as suicide bombers. The FARC-ettes were, well, more Latina. Even when in their fatigues, they wore earrings and pink scrunchees to keep their hair in place, and listened to music on tiny radios. While sex had been forbidden among the Tigers, the FARC's more relaxed view is evidenced by the fact that many of their women fighters wear...
...Jennifer: But its Latino-stereotype bad guy is going to make some people very angry. They may have tried to balance it with Shaft's sidekick, Carmen Vasquez, but she's played by Vanessa Williams, and aside from her name there's nothing particularly Latina about her - unlike the bad guy Peoples, who is a screamingly camp, caricatured Dominican drug dealer. But when the original came out you didn't have the culture jam-packed with images of black athletes, actors and musicians defining what was cool. Back then, the very fact of having an aggressive, rebellious, stylish, smart black...
...SKIPPER FOR VEEP Barbie for President, back on the campaign trail after eight years, hits Toys "R" Us next week. Something about the doll (there are Latina and black versions) put us in mind of other political dolls. Next up: Malibu Hillary...