Abstract:In this mixture of memoir, reflection, and scholarship, the author details how,
during a time of suffering, James Baldwin and singer Celia Cruz helped him
understand his tense relationship with his toxic paternal grandparents and
celebrate the reclamation of his stifled Mexican heritage.
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