Inventing Latinos by Laura E. Gómez

Author:Laura E. Gómez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2020-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

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TO COUNT, WE MUST BE COUNTED

I felt like I needed to ask Kennedy to forgive me for not being able to stop those bullets. … I never owned a suit in my life, and so when I wore the suit and stood in front of his grave … I felt important. I felt American.

—Juan Romero, who as a seventeen-year-old busboy cradled

a dying Robert F. Kennedy, 20181

I grew up the only Mexican kid in my neighborhood. … I was made to feel like a third-rate citizen. But I used to read about the Smithsonian, think about what an amazing place it is—and now they have my machine.

—Mariano Martínez, Latino restaurateur and inventor of

the frozen margarita machine, circa 20102

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