Speedy Gonzales: U.S. Latino Folk Hero Co-opted Racist Stereotypes

Speedy Gonzales, with an exaggerated Mexican accent, somehow strayed away from his animators' racist intentions to become a symbol and an icon to Hispanics in the U.S.
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