…esa América
que tiembla de huracanes y que vive de amor,
hombres de ojos sajones y alma bárbara, vive.
Y sueña. Y ama, y vibra, y es la hija del Sol.
Tags: america español hispanic
Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.
Es tan corto el amor y es tan largo el olvido.
Porque en noches como ésta la tuve entre mis brazos,
mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.
Aunque éste sea el último dolor que ella me causa,
y éstos sean los últimos versos que yo le escribo.
Tags: love loss spanish amor hispanic
I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.
Raquel CepedaTags: identity race racism hispanic hispanic-american latina latina-american latino-american race-as-concept racial-ambiguity
Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?
Raquel CepedaTags: identity america race political racism-in-the-west hispanic hispanic-american latina-american latino-american racial-ambiguity hyphenated-identities
Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.
Raquel CepedaTags: freedom identity freedom-of-thought race immigrant-experience hispanic latino-americans latinos race-in-america
Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well.
Raquel CepedaTags: family family-relationships sisterhood sisters opposites dysfunctional-families family-saga family-drama sisters-sibling-rivalry hispanic latino-american latina-americans latinas
Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.
Raquel CepedaTags: race race-matters race-relations new-world hispanic latino-american race-in-america hispanic-identity latino-american-identity new-world-history
...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.
Raquel CepedaTags: identity america race racism race-matters internationalism hispanic latino-american latino-american-identity racial-constructs being-latina being-latino
I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas beyond the everyday. It is another borderland I inhabit. Not quite here nor there. On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone.
Sergio TroncosoTags: immigration chicano latino border borders immigrant-experience hispanic immigrant-values sergio-troncoso
Again, this week as I walked on Broadway, in front of giant photographs of voluptuous supermodels at a Victoria Secret mega-store, who was rebuilding the sidewalks? With sweaty headbands, ripped-up jeans, and dust on their brown faces? Their muscled hands quivered as they worked the jack-hammers and lugged the concrete chunks into dump trucks. Two men from Guanajuato. Undocumented workers. They both shook my hand vigorously, as if they were relieved I wasn’t an INS officer.
I imagined how much money Victoria Secret was making off these poor bastards. I wondered why passersby didn’t see what was in front of their faces. We use these workers. We profit from them. In the shadows, they work to the bone, for pennies. And it’s so easy to blame them for everything and nothing simply because they are powerless, and dark-skinned,and speak with funny accents. Illegal is illegal. It is a phrase, shallow and cruel, that should prompt any decent American to burn with anger.
Tags: immigrants chicano latino illegal-immigration immigrant-experience hispanic immigrant-values sergio-troncoso undocumented-workers
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