![]() “Do you ever think about how Cubans get all this special treatment, like literally you step on U.S. “I definitely grew up very aware of the ways both of my parents were treated differently, certainly in terms of ease of immigration and also the political structures within Miami, and what kinds of immigrants were favored and which ones weren’t.” Coming from Cuba, her mother was granted asylum on arrival to the U.S., while it took her Mexican father years to gain citizenship. ![]() “It’s sort of an imposed identity.” She knows firsthand, from within her own family, that Latinx people are not a monolith. “The label ‘Latinx’ just exists here in the U.S.,” she told me, noting that many people who immigrate here have never identified as broadly Latin American. ![]() Garcia is equally boundary pushing when it comes to prescriptive notions of the Latinx community-or lack of community. ![]() “The idea that all minoritized people will just automatically find solidarity is flawed.” ![]()
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