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About twenty-five members of the Harvard black and Latina communities gathered in Loker Commons last night to participate in a discussion which focused on black-Latina relations and the role of women in these communities...
According to Alatorre, the discussion was created to find ways of fostering black-Latina relations on campus...
...concerned about the breakdown of the black-Latina alliance," Alatorre said. "We will be leaders in the communities...We should get some things on the table, see each others' faces...
Last Thursday, Latinas Unidas sponsored a round-table discussion, "The Virgin versus the Bombshell: Latinos, Latinas and Sex," at which students addressed many of these stereotypes, including the "virgin-bombshell dichotomy." Alatorre described the dichotomy as the general perception in "all levels of society" that Latina women are either "inexperienced or oversexed...
...Latinos have these stereotypes as do Latino men and Latina women. It's just as persuasive at Harvard as [it is] in the community at large," Alatorre said...