History Series / Vida

* LatinoIsBrown: All of the Latino characters are the standard black-haired (and brunette), olive-skinned people. Roberta Colindrez, who's a fair-skinned Latina herself, is instead cast as the show's only recurrent white character (a lesbian named Nico whom Emma gets into a relationship with). Of course, it's TruthInTelevision for most Latinos in the US.

* OutsideInsideSlur: Emma and Lyn are frequently referred to as "coconuts" or "White-inas" because they previously left their neighbourhood, and later return to make major changes to their late mother's bar. PlayedForDrama, as the show addresses the many issues within the Latin American community, including racism, as is shown with the aforementioned slurs. Season 3 trailers show residents painting actual coconuts over Emma and Lyn's painting on the community mural to further protest the changes they made to Visa's bar.

%%* TokenWhite: Nearly all of the cast are Latin American, with only a few whites appearing. Lyn's boyfriend in the first season, a store owner (whose property Marisol vandalizes) and Nico, a lesbian whom Emma gets involved with are probably the only ones who appear in more than a couple scenes, have multiple lines or aren't in the background.
%%* TwoferTokenMinority: Nico is the only recurring female white person among an otherwise entirely Latin American cast, and she's also a lesbian.

* DisappearedDad: Emma and Lyn’s father is only mentioned once briefly-apparently he was deported to Mexico, but there's no indication of them being in contact with him since. It turns out they thought he died, but he's still alive.

* ButchLesbian: Eddy. In the second season, a bunch of others are shown. They even discuss the idea of advertising that they're lesbians by masculine clothing and hairstyles. Nice is one of them, who Emma then gets involved with.

* ButchLesbian: Eddy. In the second season, a bunch of others are shown. They even discuss the idea of advertising that they're lesbians by masculine clothing and hairstyles.

* YourCheatingHeart: Johnny has a pregnant fiancee, but he has sex with Lyn multiple times, despite telling her he is over her.

* TokenWhite: Nearly all of the cast are Latin American, with only a few whites appearing. Lyn's boyfriend in the first season, a store owner (whose property Marisol vandalizes) and Nico, a lesbian whom Emma gets involved with are probably the only ones who appear in more than a couple scenes, have multiple lines or aren't in the background.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Nico is the only recurring female white person among an otherwise entirely Latin American cast, and she's also a lesbian.

* IntimateMarks: One of the women whom Emma has a threeway with has many tattoos on her torso just beside or above (though not on) her breasts, as the audience [[{{Fanservice}} gets shown in great detail]].

* AThreesomeIsHot: Emma meets up with two women in a club (one of whom she'd previously hooked up with) and they have sex (offscreen this time).

* CategoryTraitor: Emma and Lyn are accused of not being "real" Latinas frequently, using such slurs as "coconut" or "White-ina", because they left the neighborhood, then came back to do some stuff differently with their mom's bar. Nelson is also accused of this, though with far more justification in his case, as he's gentrifying at the cost of the residents plus shows contempt for most Latinas.

* DisappearedDad: Emma and Lyn’s father is only mentioned once briefly-apparently he was deported to Mexico, but there's no indication of them being in contact with him since.

* LatinoIsBrown: All of the Latino characters are the standard black-haired (and brunette), olive-skinned people. Roberto Colindrez, who's a fair-skinned Latina herself, is instead cast as the show's only recurrent white character (a lesbian named Nico whom Emma gets into a relationship with). Of course, it's TruthInTelevision for most Latinos in the US.

* LatinoIsBrown: All of the Latino characters are the standard black-haired, olive-skinned people. Roberto Colindrez, who's a fair-skinned Latina herself, is instead cast as the show's only recurrent white character (a lesbian named Nico whom Emma gets into a relationship with). Of course, it's TruthInTelevision for most Latinos in the US.

* TwoferTokenMinority: Nico is the only recurring female white person, and she's also a lesbian.

* VillainousGentrification: {{Played for drama}}. The series' subplot involves the characters resisting the attempts to gentrify Boyle Heights, mainly because it could raise property prices to the point that most residents couldn't afford it, and can potentially erase the neighborhood's beloved Latin culture.

* VillainousGentrification: {{Played for drama}}. The series' subplot involves the characters resisting the attempts to gentrify Boyle Heights, mainly because it could raise property prices to the point that most residents couldn't afford, and can potentially erase the neighborhood's beloved Latin culture.

* OutsideInsideSlur: Emma and Lyn are frequently referred to as "coconuts" or "White-inas" because they previously left their neighbourhood, and later return to make major changes to their late mother's bar. PlayedForDrama, as the show addresses the many issues within the Latin American community, including racism, as is shown with the aforementioned slurs.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Emma confronts Lyn over her affair with Johnny, Lyn willfully ignores the fact that Johnny is both a married man and a father-to-be, choosing to justify her actions on the grounds that she wants to be free from society's idea of monogamy. Understandbly, Emma is pissed at this.

* OutsideInsideSlur: Emma and Lyn are frequently referred to as "coconuts" or "White-inas" because they previously left their neighbourhood, and later return to make major changes to their late mother's bar. Played for Drama, as the show addresses the many issues within the Latin American community, including racism, as is shown with the aforementioned slurs.

The series follows two sisters - Emma and Lyn Hernandez- as they return to their hometown in East Los Angeles in a primarily Mexican-American community. The sisters must come together after a long absence in the wake of their mother's death, whereupon they learn that she was secretly married to another woman. From there, they must confront their own issues while Emma tries to sell her mother's bar, even though her widow, Eddy, won't allow it. A sideplot involves a local girl named Marisol who is fighting gentrification in their town.

* OutsideInsideSlur: Emma and Lyn are subjected to various intra-ethnic slurs ("coconut" and "White-ina" among others) simply because they left their neighbourhood. This certainly isn't helped by the fact that the two sisters also happen to be very light-skinned.