Cultural politics are not understood in the traditional way we have come to know the term politics. The vocabulary itself promotes categorization of an other, an alien. Definitions of undocumented worker vs. illegal alien although are really the same thing one is seen as better than the other. This labor is easily exploited because these people are seen as second-class humans, without papers of citizenship there is no legal protection for these workers. This is a good example because it illustrates a political struggle in a cultural realm.
Women of color can portray their ideas of how the world works.
Norte describes women who all have men absent from their lives. Describes a woman whose life is shaped by both sides of the border. Objects of rejection that become special decorations for the aunt. Her aunt is part of a tourist economy, implies there is a larger system of tourism and economics that is connected. Gay Latino man coming together with his sexuality and spirituality.