But you don’t look Puerto Rican…

Paul David Mena
Wayland, MA

As if a Puerto Rican can’t be fair-skinned, middle-class and college-educated! Granted, I was raised by parents who looked for a life as far away from their Depression-era upbringing in Brooklyn as possible. They found it further east in suburban Long Island, where I grew up with zero consciousness of race. Was this a good thing?


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