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Growing up in the Bronx, I was accustomed to identifying as Puerto Rican. I was surrounded by communities of color and went to school where the student body was predominantly Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican, and Black. I don’t recall hearing or using the term “Latino” much until I was in college.
During my freshman year, I vividly remember looking through the course catalog – a massive depository that resembled a phone book in which all the classes being offered were listed – to see if there were any courses about Puerto Ricans. For the most part, I saw only classes about the broader category of “Latinos” offered through a Latino/a Studies Program.
