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Latinx Literature - Coggle Diagram

- - - - In many pieces of corresponding literature, latinx workers and liberationists are seen as a resource to be expended, something that can be used up without regard for the right to freedom for those peoples. Thus, by fighting back against these systems by instilling powerful latinx people into society, this dismantles those systems that tell latinx people they are powerless.
  - - - "We are free and sovereign to determine those tasks which are justly called for by our house, our
        land, the sweat of our brows, and by our hearts."
        
        Worker liberationist philosophy is directly connected to latinx liberation. The surplus labor generated for capitalist corporations often comes from BIPOC disenfranchised workers. By placing the means of production within the hands of those that perform said production, this liberates those groups most targeted by harmful business practices
- - - - UFW Workers March Along with Cesar Chavez, a prime example of liberationist thinking in latinx workers.
  - - - Both of these speak to the inciting of populous revolution in the face of oppression of ones culture. By transforming these discriminatory acts into catalysts for revolution, they are able to create powerful acts of rebellion.
      - This emphasis on latinx scholars having their culture demonized is a salient aspect of latinx literature. The desire to cut off a culture at the root, severing that ability to communicate, is core to colonial oppression.
- - - - This feeling of otherness and being excluded from the greater whole of America is present through a great deal of latinx literature. The authors center the experience of how individuals are constantly told that they somehow do not mish with the greater existence of American culture. Much of this occurs during their youth or in relation to the concept of youth, as much of the ostracization occurs during youth, creating a sense of the foundations of American society being excluding of latinx people.
  - - - Both of these passages reflect a need to learn to exist within a new society. This shows a disconnect between America and its inability to mesh with other cultures. The response to this leaves latinx immigrants with two options: face discrimination head-on (a large amount of emotional labor) or assimilate. However, finding solidarity in communities where fellowship exist allows for a type of rejection of anti-latinx sentiments.
- - - - "Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them."
  - - - Unaccompanied and Borderlands's focus on the delineations of land on borders and the way it is enforced creates a strong sense of how American culture tries to separate latinx existence from prosperity. By constructing barriers and grand systems of pseudo-myth around them, they become deified markings of discrimination.
  - - - Subordinance and fealty are key to capitalist oppression. By creating a society where workers are unable to question or protest their conditions, this allows the bougies to oppress their workers without fear of reprocussion.
- - - - A great deal of focus is placed on how society policies those who do not fall into the norm. Whether it is queer people, non-masculine men, or other divergences from cisheteronormativity, these aspects of culture target already oppressed groups to be demonized. By combating this rhetoric, we can work to reconfigure these harmful systems.
        
        Carmen Smith - A Latinx Poet and Staunch Feminist
  - - - "My parents probably wanted a girl who would sit in the pews wearing pretty florals and a soft smile. They got combat boots and a mouth silent until it’s sharp as an island machete."
      - The Poet X - Live Reading
  - - - The women in these stories reject the narrative of feminine passivity. Instead, they are full of power and anger, rightfully so. It rejects the existence of the perfect and poised woman in exchange for something much more realistic: A person fighting for their liberation
        
        The revision of white feminist depictions of liberation through the lens of powerful latinx women and non-binary people.