Women Devon W. Carbado Richard Blanco's childhood and adolescence

Richard Blanco's childhood and adolescence were experienced between two imaginary worlds: his parents' nostalgic world of 1950s Cuba and his imagined America

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Women Devon W. Carbado Richard Blanco's childhood and adolescenceA New York Times Notable Book Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conceived as a series of portraits analyzing the role that sexual and racial identity played in the lives and work of the writer's subjects: his mother, a self described "Negress," who would not be defined by the limitations of race and gender; the mother of