‘Am I Latino? Am I Black?’ Growing Up Biracial in Los Angeles (L.A. TACO)
In L.A. TACO, a writer raised Afro-Mexican in Los Angeles tells it raw and specific: not speaking Spanish and hearing about it, feeling distanced at family gatherings, and a turning point found at a Black Lives Matter protest, where both halves of his identity stood in the same place. It is the experience list from our homepage, lived at street level. Pair it with the LAist essay for a two-voice feature on mixed Latino boyhood and fatherhood, one generation answering the other. Some posts explain the data. This one explains the ache, and the arrival.