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As an unrepentent lefty and a person of mixed race (Afro-Indigenous on her mother’s side, with a “white” father), Eartha Kitt would have fit right in as a Latina artist. Then again, she might not have been seen as the exotic figure (described as “the most exciting woman in the world” by her putative lover, Orson Wells) she was to North Americans, but she’d still be remembered as a Hell of a great singer.
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The background of Mexican anti-clericalism and the "atheist" general who led the Catholic counter-revolution of the 1920s 128 pp., Editorial Mazatlán, 2012.
An oral history of the World War II experiences of Gilberto Bosques (1894 – 1997), Mexico 's Consul General in Marseilles, France, who saved tens of thousands from the Nazis. 36 pp. Editorial Mazatlán, 2007 $35 MXP (click the image)
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