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...where "sometimes you don't fit in. Like if you're Puerto Rican on an Italian block." Thomas gritty memoir recalls a childhood in the Bronx streets looking out for a "bunch of hungry alley cats that could get to their mouse anytime they wanted," "Mr. Mendelsohn" by Nicholasa Mohr recounts the story of the Suarez family through the eyes of a Jewish man watching his neighborhood turn into a Puerto Rican enclave. Nash Candelaria recounts of how he taught his "Okie" friend to scream "Kill the gringos" in Spanish at the cheap movie theater he and his gang...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: Growing up in the Land of Gringos | 3/11/1993 | See Source »

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