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  • Not Your Maid or Hot Tamale: The Myth of the Latin Woman

    October 15, 2020

    By Judith Ortiz Cofer | On a bus trip to London from Oxford University where I was earning some graduate credits one summer, a young man, obviously fresh from a pub, spotted me and as if struck by inspiration went down on his knees in the aisle. With both hands over his heart he broke…

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