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Latinx Literature - Coggle Diagram
Latinx Literature
family and Kinship
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Down These Mean Streets
A young boy grapples with harsh realities of looking different than his siblings because of his skin color leading to a familial divide "Maybe its cause I'm the darkest in this family , I mean you love us all the same right?"(22).
The Husband Stitch
A woman partakes in a sexist game between her and her husband which causes her to lose her relationship with her son" Something is lost between us, and I never find it again"(5).
Nationalism
13 Points Young Lords
A program made for Puerto Ricans with political steps to crate a stronger community promoting equality for all "We want self-determination for Puerto Ricans , liberation on the island and inside the United States" (1).
Atzlan
This was a program directed towards the Chicano people pointing out specific Organizational goals. "El plan Espiritual de Aztlan sets the theme that the Chicanos (LA Raza de Bronze) must use their nationalism for the mass mobilization and organization (2).
Yo Soy Joaquin
Latin Nationalism in 1968 in a form of a poem " The ground was mine, I was both tyrant and slave"(209).
Class
Unaccompanied
This shows the life of an immigrant without status in in this country. Esenssially in the eyes of the law he does not exist."I wont marry for papers. I might marry for papers"(13).
Imagine Me Here
How the authors parents see the Chicano word as meaningless because no latin person is the same as another." My parents refuse , they find it useless a Cuban is not the same as a Puerto Rican, who is not the same as a Dominican...(158).
Post-Colonial Love Poem
The Indienous people of the land are being endowed as lower class due to their race ("How can a century or a heart turn if nobody asks, where have all the natives gone?"(14).
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Racism
Nuyorican
How Puerto Ricans are being stifled by America without any say to their language and culture " Half Blue, Feet first she battled her way into the world" (1).
Going Cowboy
How passing off as white is used as a survival technique to deal with racist white people "They inadvertently include me in these white power moments"(110)
Borderlands
Gloria Anzaldua speaks about how she was separated due to her race and this is something that can delete a culture "1,950 mile long open wound dividing a pueblo"(24).