CHAPTER 6
De Colores: Culturally Centered Leadership
LATINOS ARE A RICH culture of synthesis and fusion. With such a colorful array of fiesta-loving, family-centered, hardworking, tamale- and salsa-eating Latinos, one might wonder what could possibly keep this sundry group together. What are the connecting points that give a shared identity to this cohort of thirty distinct subgroups in the US census?
Much like the Jewish community, Latinos are an ethnic and cultural group. Latinos are bound together by the Spanish language, a shared history, a spiritual tradition, and common values that stem from both their Spanish and their Indigenous roots. Cultural values are fastening points—the nucleus—shaping a collective identity from the many ingredients ...
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