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Latinxs, 1990’s

Arkansas Democrat Gazette,

March 24, 1997

(PDF available)

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Arkansas Democrat Gazette, March 24, 1997

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“I don’t have a problem with anybody being at places. . . . It’s just that things have changed so much. You go over to Prairie Creek on a weekend now, and it feels like almost all is Hispanic.”

Dana McCoy

Rogers, Arkansas

March 1997

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Act of Spatial Illegality

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“I define this as any instance in which Latinas/os do not break the white community’s laws, customs, or social norms, yet their activity is constructed as objectionable and illicit, and their mere presence is a violation of community” (Guerrero, 2017).