Some Latina mothers teach their daughters how to spoon masa or plátano onto a corn husk or banana leaf when making tamales or pasteles.
My Latina mother taught me to love musicals.
Perhaps it’s because, like all musicals, “West Side Story” is a complex form of representation that revels in both its messiness and its marvelousness.
My mother was showing me a diva who could move across these imposed limits.
Many of us have cataloged and condemned the musical’s depictions of criminal youth and blatantly sexual women all speaking in exaggerated accents.
Persons:
Barbra Streisand, Fanny Brice, Diana Ross, Rita Moreno, Anita, ”
Organizations:
Broadway
Locations:
“, America