Yara Rodrigues Fowler’s first novel, Stubborn Archivist, was published in 2019. She is a trustee of Latin American Women’s Aid.
‘Latino’ is not a race. Latino just means from Latin America, and if you go to Latin America, you’ll see it’s full of white people and black people and brown people, like the US. Think about Bolsonaro, and now think of Pelé – they are both ‘Latino’. White Latinos aren’t ‘white-passing’; they’re just white.
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