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    Going Home: Reality and Fantasy in Panama

    November 5, 2011 • Culture, Race • Views: 1915

    Originally posted at TheModernLatina.com I’ve been sitting on this post for awhile because I guess I just didn’t know how to broach this. I wanted to make sure I didn’t come out extra bitter or angry. I think after all of this time,

  • Immigration: The War Between Black & Brown

    September 5, 2011 • Politics • Views: 677

    Just the other day, I received a text message from my dear Auntie that read: “There is a hispanic family movie across the street. Damn.”  I knew what that meant; her message read more like: there goes the neighborhood.  I opted out of a classic

  • Parenting Lesson 101: Don’t Allow a 7-Year-old to Walk 7 Blocks in NYC

    July 15, 2011 • Culture • Views: 26

  • Eddie Long Accepts a Stack of Money From Woman During Sermon (Like A Pimp!!)

    June 14, 2011 • Culture, Entertainment, Justice, Race • Views: 1142

    Recession? What recession? This nigga has to cut a check for $15 million to cover that whole feeling on your booty thing with those cats from his church. And look at how the faithful women of the Lord and his church are dropping stacks on this fool. What, did

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    The Mulatto Vibe: You Might Be A Mulatto, If…

    December 4, 2010 • Uncategorized • Views: 60

    -= Variations on a Theme of a Mulatto =- I got the following from Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn’s book on biculturalism Half and half: Writers growing up biracial and bicultural. I strongly recommend the book for anyone interested bicultural/ biracial

  • Tribal Wives: Is this Entertainment or Ethnocentrism?

    October 14, 2010 • Uncategorized • Views: 44

    By Joanna (JuJuBe) In my travels across the internet, I recently came across some youtube videos from the BBC, from a 2008 show called “Tribal Wives”. The basic premise of the show is that a British (white) woman would leave her life behind for a

  • cubanpeople08

    Between Black and White: Latino/as In the US

    October 3, 2010 • Uncategorized • Views: 62

    -= Black and White and Spic and Span =- -Naaaahhh… You ain’t no Porta Reecan. -I keep telling you: The boy is a Black man with an accent. — Wille Perdomo (for Piri Thomas), Nigger-Reecan Blues Editor’s Note: I’ve been lazy and as

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    ¡Ask a Nuyorican!

    September 15, 2010 • Uncategorized • Views: 90

    ¡Hola! Gringos! It’s National HisPanic Month (or something like that) and as the resident Nuyorican, I’ll be posting almost exclusively on things Latino/a over at my blog. * * * Being a Primer on How to be a Nuyorican via Cuss Words, Sex, and Everything