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Reader's corner.(Letter to the editor)
IN APRIL, ColorLines reader Ana Alecia Lyman received back issues of the magazine. The Peace Corps volunteer was at a conference in Mozambique, where she works as an HIV/AIDS and Gender Programming Specialist. She shared the magazines with colleagues, and they quickly found themselves in conversations about how race and politics in the United States relate to global struggles for racial justice.
"In our respective Mozambican communities, keeping up with international and U.S. news is difficult," Lyman writes to us by email. "Opportunities for discussions on political and ethnic intersections or sexual identity are even harder to find. Here, the U.S. becomes 'Snoop Dogg' scribbled on a wall near my house, bootleg action DVDs and the faces of Bush and Bin Laden on capolanas [baby slings]."
"To borrow a Portuguese expression, we have saudades, or nostalgia, for these conversations," Lyman writes. "We miss them, as they are integral to our understanding of ourselves and ...
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