You don’t want to google “dressing Latina”, so screwed are we as an intersectional culture.
an unnamed woman manager at MSNBC/NBC told her not to dress "too Latina," to the White House Correspondents Dinner. Then they said that she should dress like Ivanka Trump.
in Perfectly You, per a tweet by journalist Yashar Ali, Atencio writes that “one of the female managers at the network” asked her whether she was “prepared for such a prestigious gathering,” an open-ended question that obviously houses a darker mandate.
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so typical and boring a racist stereotype it barely inspires eye-batting—is the idea that there is some particular way to “dress Latina,” a flattening of a huge global population that counts over 600 million people in Latin America alone, and over 50 million in the U.S into a single, streamlined stereotype
Is it because of white folks (or just NBC producers) reading Cosmopolitan
16 Stereotypes of Latinas That Need to Stop
1. We all have accents.
2. We love to dance.
3. We are all maids.
4. Our men are crappy, but who cares, because they're the best lovers.
5. We always eat tacos or rice and beans. And we love tequila.
6. We love to show cleavage.
7. We come from huge families.
8. We are great cooks.
9. We are immigrants/foreign.
10. We are always loud and obnoxious.11. If we speak proper English, we have a nasally and annoying high-pitched voice.
12. We have perfect café con leche skin with long wavy hair.
13. We have a bunch of kids at a young age.
14. We come from dangerous and poor neighborhoods.
15. Our mamis and abuelas are very religious and always Catholic.
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