https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d Made with topics from latinx literature en-us 2018-01-25 20:10:06 UTC 2026-02-24 19:02:17 UTC hello@padlet.com garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/224879860 2018-01-25 21:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/224879860 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/224880252 Esperanza Cordero a young Latina girl living in Chicago, Illinois reflects on her hopes and dreams for the future in the United States.Esperanza dreams of owning a home is connected to what people who come to the U.S imagine the American Dream to be. ]]> 2018-01-25 21:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/224880252 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/226388067
“You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.”

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“As a black girl, you literally have to learn how to do your hair. And then once you’ve spent years trying to make it straight, and damaging it, you have to learn how to love it.”
“When people know my religion or where I am from, I feel pressured to look or dress a certain way. They expect me to conform to the stereotypical image that society has implanted within their minds.”

https://thetab.com/us/georgetown/2016/12/07/young-person-color-america-3986

]]> 2018-02-05 03:20:17 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/227953608 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/227956570 Page 3 bottom left
"The direction of power between whites and people of color is historic, traditional, normalized, and deeply embedded in the fabric of U.S. society (Mills, 1999; Feagin, 2001). Whiteness refers to the dimensions of racism that serve to elevate white people over people of color (DiAngelo, 2006a); whiteness is the relationship of dominance between whites and people of color"]]> 2018-02-05 03:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/227956570 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/230307595 " Yet the conundrum of our identity has made us profoundly insecure first and foremost is the problem of language. Both the statehood and the Commonwealth parties have declared that we will never give up the Spanish language; Spanish will have to be an official language for us, together with English, if we become a state [...] Can the United States do the same? can it rise to the challenge of not only allowing but encouraging immigrants to keep their languages while ensuring the permanence of English? 
Page 1198, first paragraph. ]]> 2018-02-10 21:29:58 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/230307595 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/230310571 "Yet beneath my Puerto Rican English a Latin passion throbs, a salsa rhythm swings. I'm always coming and going from English to Spanish, from the conga drums to the violins. Language has become "la guaga aerea " for me; It keeps me flying entre Puerto Rico and New York" 

Page 1199, Middle of the page. ]]> 2018-02-10 22:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/230310571 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/230316926 " Now I am not so sure that the axiom is true after seeing how Puerto Ricans on the mainland have lost their Spanish while firmly holding on to their culture, I feel that it must be reevaluated. Language is an important part of culture, but its exclusivity is not fundamental to culture survival[...]Today we are a mulatto-mestizo nation and proud of it. We eat Kentucky Fried Chicken. tacos from Taco Bell, and Whoppers from Burger King as well as arroz con pollo, pastels, and lechon asao"

Second last paragraph on page 1202 and bottom of page 1203. ]]> 2018-02-11 00:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/230316926 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/245894670 Most of the women in the novel are prisoners. They are locked away in their homes as if they were property. The men they chose to marry to run away from their old life are much worse. As Anzaldua mentions Machismo has evolved from its original meaning into something nasty and beastly. 
Esperanza sees Rafaela wasting her life away, staring at the world through her window. "Rafaela who is still young but getting old from leaning out the window so much, gets locked indoor because her husband is afraid rafaela will run away since she is too beautiful to look at" page 79]]> 2018-03-25 22:50:20 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/245894670 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253463344 "From the men of our culture, we demand the admission/ acknowledgment/ disclosure/ testimony that they wound us, violate us, are afraid of us" page 106]]> 2018-04-19 14:56:48 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253463344 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253463696 Society has always been dominated by the majority, which are whites. People of color have little to no influence in the changes that occur at a white dominant institution. D’Angelo argues that whites are segregating themselves in order to avoid any confrontation regarding race. Many whites assumed that by ignoring race, it simply would not affect them. Segregation becomes a predominant key to the creation of white fragility. I cannot talk about an experience of segregation because it is so widespread that I do not notice it. Whites are raised to not “feel any loss over the absence of people of color in their lives… this absence is what defines their schools and neighborhoods as good” (D’ Angelo 2011). The segregation begins to hurt any future discussions about race as “whites have not had to build tolerance for racial discomfort and thus when racial discomfort arises, whites typically respond as if something is wrong” (D’ Angelo 2011). When D’Angelo did an anti-racism training along with an inter-racial team, one of the white participants “left the session… all attention was immediately focused… onto her and away from the impact she had had on the people of color” (D’ Angelo 2011). This discomfort that D’Angelo describes is due to whites’ lack of capacity to confront conversations regarding race. It is done in order to maintain domination even when they are not educated on the subject. Racial arrogance is severely constructed because whites “have no compunction about debating the knowledge…about race” (D’ Angelo 2011), which is preferable than actually being educated on the subject. The continuous “white moral objection to racism increases white resistance to acknowledging complicity with it” (D’ Angelo 2011), since investing time to understand racism and its effect on people of color can hurt their white dominant culture, which causes changes to their economic and political powers.]]> 2018-04-19 14:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253463696 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253464026 Trujillo was taught by U.S military how to be a soldier. He was the worse president of the Dominican Republic. He was also called el chivo because he believed every woman was his to have. ]]> 2018-04-19 14:58:03 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253464026 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253464955
"As a mestiza, I have no country, my homeland cast me out; yet all countries are mine because I am every woman's sister or potential lover" page 102 

She was excluded from her culture for being a lesbian. ]]> 2018-04-19 14:59:46 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253464955 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253465865 "The dominant white culture is killing us slowly with its ignorance. By taking away our self-determination, it has made us weak and empty. As people we have resited and we have taken expedient positions, but we have never allowed to develop unencumbered" Page 1]]> 2018-04-19 15:01:15 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253465865 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253466578 Language 

"Chicano Spanish sprang out of the Chicanos need to identify ourselves as distinct people.  We needed a language with which we could communicate with ourselves" 

Anzaldua felt as if a new language would give her the culture she was denied to get from those who do not recognize Chicanos as Latino. ]]> 2018-04-19 15:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253466578 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253467676 "They think we're dangerous. They think we will attack them with our shiny knives" Page 28

Esperanza here is talking about how other Americans see the people that live in her neighborhood and how bad they are seen]]> 2018-04-19 15:04:33 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253467676 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253470093 "This land was Mexican once was Indian always and is. and will be again" 113]]> 2018-04-19 15:09:03 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/253470093 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/257763315 A macho used to mean someone who cares and provided for his family but thanks to the oppression from Anglos, Latinos, and others; Chicano men are putting women down " and even brutalize them. coexisting with his sexist behavior is a love for the mother" page 105]]> 2018-05-03 17:17:01 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/257763315 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/257763537 “We [Darrel] aren’t squatters. We are ‘settlers.’ We take up land that belongs to us, American citizens, by paying the government price for it” (Ruiz De Burton, 5).  Darrel is talking about how he despises the name squatter as he is only taking the land that belonged to his people once. ]]> 2018-05-03 17:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/257763537 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/257763806 Amara La Negra speaks about the image of Latinx people in the U.S., people have this idea that Latinos cannot be white but also cannot be black. ]]> 2018-05-03 17:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/257763806 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/259439716 Red Clowns 

Esperanza is raped when she goes to the carnival with sally. 
"Why didn't you tell them to leave me alone? The one who grabbed me by the arm, he wouldn't  let me go. He said I love you, Spanish girl, I love you, and pressed his sour mouth to mine" Page 100
Here it can be said that the guy was not from the neighborhood as he called her Spanish girl not Latina or hispanic. ]]> 2018-05-09 19:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/259439716 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/259442898 2018-05-09 20:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/259442898 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/259446772 "I remembered being caught speaking Spanish at recess-that was good for three licks on the knuckles with a sharp ruler. I remember being sent to the corner of the classroom for "talking back" to the Anglo teacher when all I was trying to do was tell her how to pronounce my name"Page 75 ]]> 2018-05-09 20:17:24 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/259446772 garcan01 https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/259447784 "The gringos, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it" Page 29 ]]> 2018-05-09 20:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/garcan01/iziqvq354u8d/wish/259447784