Carmen Rita Wong
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"My mother carried a powerful secret. A secret that shaped my life and the lives of everyone around me in ways she could not have imagined. Carmen Rita Wong has always craved a sense of belonging: First as a toddler in a warm room full of Black and brown Latina women, like her mother, Lupe, cheering her dancing during her childhood in Harlem. And in Chinatown, where her immigrant father, 'Papi' Wong, a hustler, would show her and her older brother...
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"When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a working-class Latina from the Bronx, became the youngest congresswoman ever elected--beating a ten-term incumbent Democrat--she not only made history but became a beacon of twenty-first-century representation for progressives, activists, socialists, and feminists far beyond her millennial generation. From her days working as a bartender while helping her mother fight foreclosure to championing the Green New Deal,...