Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well.

...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.