Black Is a Working-Class Color: The Latinx Politics of Wearing Black
In his memoir book Solito, the celebrated Latinx writer Javier Zamora recuperates his story as an unaccompanied Salvadoran nine-year-old migrating to the United States. He takes the reader across several borders and the journey’s many difficulties, fears and small triumphs, as he struggles to reunite with his parents in the United States. One of the details that caught my attention was Zamora’s attentiveness to the dressed migrant body in darker, mostly black, clothing.
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