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Latinx Literature (Race (Colorism (Sandra María Esteves, “Autobiography of…
Latinx Literature
Race
Colorism
Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary"
Anzaldua writes about the borders and their purpose. This border (Mexico, her homeland) is the white man’s way to keep himself from harm and to keep himself safe from the mixed-culture people in the south.
Sandra María Esteves, “Autobiography of a Nuyorican
What I was able to take away from this is that this poem might have been made to question the notion and construct of culture, identity and class.
"The world did not want another brown,
another slant-eyed-olive-Indian-Black-child. Did not want another rainbow empowered song added to repertoire in blue, or azure, or indigo, or caribbean crystal."
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Genre
Comics
Coming-of-age
As Karen stated to come of age she experienced many things but one of the things which she seemed to struggle with was being open about her sexuality and constantly hiding how much she liked Missy far more than just a friend.
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"I wanted to put one of those sir Francis drakey-type kisses vey gentle on her hand but I always chickened out"
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Poetry
Hurray for the Riff Raff's, Pa'lante
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"Well lately, it been mighty hard to see
Just searching for my lost humanity
I look for you, my friend
But do you look for me?"
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The author invoices and examines the spiritual death that occurs when ancestor histories and identities are abandoned which is why she writes "searching for my lost humanity"
Gender
Sexuality
"In those twenty years, I experienced the racism of the women’s movement, the elitism of the gay and lesbian movement, the homophobia and sexism of the Chicano movement, and the benign cultural imperialism of the Latin American solidarity movement"(146).
Cherrie Moraga, “Queer Aztlán: The Re-formation of Chicano Tribe
In this time of revolutions, of the Chicano fight for justice, many underlying issues were occurring which weren't shed much light. many of these Latin cultures are known to be homophobic and not very open-minded about sexuality. Cherrie Moraga tells us in this quote the struggles she faced and the movements she experienced which later led her to create the "Queer Aztlan" a Chicano homeland that would be accepting and would embrace everyone's differences.
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Masculinity
Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets
The main attitude and instigator in this book is Piri's sense of masculinity or machismo. Piri demonstrates his strong sense of machismo in many ways but mainly how he treated women. In this quote, we see how the machismo of a man can be a big part in them choosing women to wed because they must be pure even if the man himself is unfaithful or in bad paths.
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Nationalism
Patriotism
Pedro Pietri, “Puerto Rican Obituary
"Dead Puerto Ricans
Who never knew they were Puerto Ricans
Who never took a coffee break
Form the ten commandments
to KILL KILL KILL
the landlords of their cracked skulls
and communicate with their Latino souls"
Pedro Pietri writes through anger, heartbreaking yet hopeful words the struggles that the Puerto Ricans face in America. He writes with a strong sense of nationalism highlighting the experience of the Puerto Ricans in their island and in Manhattan.
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Tato Laviera, “AmeRícan
Laviera writes through nostalgia as he writes about Puerto Rico but he shifts towards a more affirmative way of writing when speaking about New York. Laviera writes to immigrants who are able to share their feelings through this poem.
"Defining myself my own way any way many
Many ways Am e Rican, with the big R and the
accent on the i"
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