In Laredo, on the border in Texas, it’s all class. The rich landowners are “Hispanics,” and everybody else is “Latinos.” In high school I knew this kid who always wore a sweatshirt that said “Brown.” I thought it meant he had a lot of Chicano pride. He let me think that, then years later told me that all his sisters and brothers went to that college. I had never heard of the Ivy League.
—Tomás Aguilar
In an analysis of oppression in Puerto Rico, in relationship with the US, colonialism is the extension of racism across borders, implemented through military force and economic policy. Race and class are intimately linked.
—Raúl Quiñones Rosado