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What Does It Mean To Be Latino? The Kid Mero Talks Us Through It : Code Switch : NPR


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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Sorry. That s always really a hard question for me (laughter). What are you defining race as? Do we have to have a conversation about what race is?
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Yes, I m Latinx. That s easy because I know my parents are both from Costa Rica. But for race, I don t know.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: I self-identify as a Latino and of the Black race.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: Looking at me, I can t put white. I can t put Black. I put other sometimes.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #5: I like to fill out other, and I like to just write in Latino. ....

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The power of words: Poet Martín Espada's latest work, 'Floaters,' tackles anti-immigrant vitriol


Poet Martín Espada’s latest work: Unsparing eyes on struggle, courage
Martín Espada’s new poetry collection, “Floaters,” looks at the struggles of immigrants, personal and family history, and the importance of preserving stories. Image courtesy Martín Espada
Martín Espada’s new poetry collection, “Floaters,” looks at the struggles of immigrants, personal and family history, and the importance of preserving stories. Image courtesy Martín Espada
By STEVE PFARRER
The title poem of Martín Espada’s new collection, “Floaters,” (W.W Norton & Co.) takes its name, as the poet explains, from the term that some U.S. Border Patrol agents use to describe migrants who drown trying to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico to the U.S. ....

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Powerful prose: Poet Martín Espada's latest work, 'Floaters,' tackles anti-immigrant vitriol


Published: 2/19/2021 8:43:24 AM
The title poem of Martín Espada’s new collection, “Floaters,” (W.W Norton & Co.) takes its name, as the poet explains, from the term that some U.S. Border Patrol agents use to describe migrants who drown trying to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico to the U.S.
It’s a blunt opening statement from a writer who’s determined to tackle the anti-immigrant vitriol in the country head-on but who’s equally determined to find stories of courage, resiliency and love.
With prose poems and the occasional free-verse poem, “Floaters” begins with a particular focus on the years of the Trump administration and its hard-line policies against immigration, from a profile of an internment camp in Texas where migrant children kick soccer balls, to the story of a vicious attack two Boston brothers, Scott and Steven Leader, launched in 2015 against a homeless Mexican man they came across on their way home from a Red Sox game at Fenway Park. ....

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