I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I’ve learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

I hated seeing these spasmodic upside-down chicken heads stretching to puncture my flesh. I imagined once that they reached my groin and pecked out my penis and my huevos and kept pecking until they got...