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Latinx Literature : - Coggle Diagram

- - - - -Explores the exclusionary tendencies of movements and how this disrupts spaces for people with intersectional identities.
        -"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)
        -"My real politicization began, not through the Chicano Movement, but through the bold recognition of my lesbianism" (146)
        -"Chicanos are an occupied nation within a nation, and women's sexuality are occupied within Chicano nation" (150)
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    - - -Discusses not only racialized misogyny (see the title "My brother's sex was white. Mine, brown.") but also misogyny in a cultural context
        -Challenges machismo and gendered expectations within the Chicano community
  - - - -This short story is based off of the story "The Green Ribbon," but this version is much more explicit in how it portrays patriarchy, power, and domination
        -The ribbon acts as a symbol of autonomy, particularly that in a sexual context
        -Explores power dynamics in relationships, particularly in terms of sex
        -Giving birth to a son, one that destroys her body, is important because of the implications. Her body is always subject to the violence of men.
    - - -The title itself helps realize the chilling story- in the story, real women have bodies that are in their control. They are not fading away, doomed to be laid over the dresses
        -The sexual relationship between Petra and the narrator and the explicit detail of their sex is contrasted against the fading women- the narrator has never felt more alive, but she is also panicked. Similarly, Petra is very dominating, but she begins losing herself as she fades away.
        -Explores not only ideas of women's autonomy and bodies but also explores lesbian sexuality
- - - - -Celebrates the Nuyorican, a "new generation" of people who found culture away from the island
        -Also highlights Puerto Rican-American celebrations of the mix of cultures
        -This is their place- in the inbetween. And he portrays this inbetween culture as beautiful because that is who they are
    - - -"weave us a song of many threads" the second line, already nodding the many cultures within them.
        -This poem brings to light the mix of cultures within Puerto Ricans, particularly Puerto Ricans in the US. Within them is both the colonizer and the colonized, an experience of violence and the perpetration of it. This is their blanket that has been woven- the indigenous, the Black, the colonizer experience. The experience of this mix, and this experience in a neo-colonial context.
    - - -This poem positions an obituary for average Nuyoricans, detailing their life
        -He describes them as hard workers, people in a society not made for them through the usage of careers like janitors and the idea of the newspapers "misspelling, mispronouncing, and misunderstanding" their names even after death. It's another, final, little scorn from people outside the community
        -There is also some comedy etched into the poem, emphasizing the importance of their own community and the sense of belonging it creates.