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Elisete sings the Jewish song ‘Hevenu Shalom Aleichem’. Translation into Portuguese by Elisete. Guitar: Ron Laor www.elisete.com You all know why I hate the word “Hispanic”. So when Marisa from Latina List sent this around the other day, I couldn’t stop myself from bashing them for using that most detested word. As a Latinoamericanista by training, Latin American and by extension, Latino, means to include non-Spanish speaking countries like Brazil and Haiti. Hispanic doesn’t. Also, when we speak Latino, we don’t speak of people who are only of Castillian Spanish. They could be descendants of Persian Jews, Lebanese Christians, Tagalog Filipinos or simple any of the hundreds of Native South American and Caribbean tribes that populate our countries. If universities …

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