Sinthya Rosa
Mandy Hui
Clarita Clouden
Group Blog Post
Blog 1- Puerto Rican bomba y Plena and Interracial Couple
Blog forum about an interracial couple
• It is beyond me how people have such hatred for interracial couples. It is none of their business who a person decides to be with and have an intimate connection with. But it seems that people have more of a problem with black and white interracial couples than anything else.
• You do not really hear discussion or debates on Puerto and Asian couples. Or black and Hispanic couples. All the talk is mainly surrounded by black and white couples. And it is sick.
• The main reason is pride, to be proud enough of your own race, to only date your own race. To keep your bloodline “pure”. When in reality not a single family’s bloodline is pure. Based on past historical events. People need to accept interracial couples. And let them be.
Puerto Rican bomba and plena
• It is so amazing how music can fuel a group of people or an entire community. The community of afro- Puerto Ricans live off of the music Bomba and Plena. It is absolutely incredible how it defines them. And how the music tells their story. They cannot let that music die. I love the meaning behind the music. The soul behind it.
Art Portion of Blog 1– (Sinthya)
Visual for Blog 1 –
Blog 2– Selena Quintanilla
Mandy Hui
Clarita Clouden
Sinthya Rosa
2nd Group Blog Post
• It is surprising to see how much of an inspiration Selena Quintanilla had and still has till this day.
• Imitation of Selena goes on about how Selena’s death had been imitated in a suburb town.
• The Gold Rush was the center of the outbursts and killings that were happening which was shocking because each and every person there, praised Selena and the person that was imitating her, which was Pesticida.
• Seeing drag queens trying so hard to impress and fit the norm.
• The situation between Bianca and Pesticida is deep because that shows hatred and competition.
• Selena was a feminist icon in Latin cultures and Latin history.
• It impacts Latinx representation and shapes many identities throughout history. 
