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The University of Central Florida (UCF) Forum is a weekly series of opinion columns presented by the UCF News & Information. The columns are the opinions of the writers, who serve on the UCF Forum panel of faculty members, staffers and students for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday at UCF Today and then broadcast between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday on WUCF-FM (89.9).
Publication Date
12-6-2017
Introduction
When I was growing up in Puerto Rico, the term Latino did not make much sense to me. Back then, I was me, a kid from Barceloneta (in northern Puerto Rico) who went to Catholic school and loved to play baseball.
Collection
Publisher
University of Central Florida
STARS Citation
Rivera, Fernando, "It Has Taken Me Years to Understand What it Means to be Latino" (2017). UCF Forum. 283.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucf-forum/283
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