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“Nuestras vidas corren casi paralelas”

Chicanos, Independentistas, and the Prison Rebellions in Leavenworth, 1969–72

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El mismo enemigo ha querido muttlar, y siposible, hacer desaparecer nuestras culturas, tan parecidas una a la otra, y sin embargo, tanto el Chicano como el Boricua hetnospodido salvar nuestra idenitidad cultural, nuestra personalidad... [The same enemy has sought to mutilate, and if possible annihilate our cultures, so similar to each other, and nonetheless, both the Chicano and the Boricua have been able to preserve our cultural identity, our personality... ]

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Gómez, A.E. (2009). “Nuestras vidas corren casi paralelas”. In: Oboler, S. (eds) Behind Bars. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101470_4

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