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Tag: Guillermo Bonfil Batalla

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Ask a Mexican: Why Does the Band Maná Suck So Much?

by Gustavo Arellano August 14th, 2013December 16th, 2020

Dear Mexican: This pregunta has been simmering in my brain for a while, like slow-cooking birria, and the recent question about whether saying “Viva la Raza” is racist reminded me to ask you. According to José Vasconcelos, the Mexican people are La Raza Cósmica (Cosmic Race), which seems like a romantic version of the “melting […]

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