“I’ve often wondered what my family would look like if we weren’t burdened with the pressure and trauma of the American Dream. What if my abuelos had stayed in Puerto Rico? What did we sacrifice to get here?”
Photo: Warner Bros. In 1956, Puerto Rico was home to my abuelos’ greatest tragedy. That year, their daughter Evelyn, my mother’s younger sister, died suddenly of a preventable fetal disease. The family’s home was filled with memories of their loss, so, among an influx of Puerto Rican immigrants to the U.S.
In the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical In the Heights, each character has their own sueñito and faces different challenges in reaching it. And while the film provides a colorful display of Latinx culture, it does not fully illustrate the diversity of Latinx people.
Unlike Nina, I have spent most of my life in predominantly white spaces, constantly oscillating between feeling too Latinx or feeling just white enough, depending on where I am and whom I’m around. Up until a few years ago, I got so used to assimilating into whiteness that I didn’t even notice the subtle racism and othering I experienced. This isn’t the same experience for many Latinx people, especially Afro-Latinx people, who do not have the ability to assimilate as easily as I do.
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