Homies: Portraying “a real barrio” – The inch-tall dolls are loved as collectibles and loathed as stereotypes.
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Chuca wears her white bustier tight. Her slick black pompadour is high in the sky, and those ruby-red lips are bright beneath her cat-eye sunglasses.
Cuco — short for Cucaracha — only comes out at night, eats stale chips and cheats at cards.
Diablo, with a red devil’s tail, gets his friends high on crack, angel dust and heroin with no regrets.
These controversial characters, called Homies, are inch-tall plastic dolls depicting life in the barrio. They can be purchased for as little as 50 cents in the gumball machines of Latino grocery stores or off the shelves of kitschy boutiques.”*
*From: www.denverpost.com
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