Name Giveaway is a Poem by Phil George.. Read it.. and Blog about what you think this means.. be ready to discuss in class..
That teacher gave me a new name ... again.
She never even had feasts or a giveaway!
Still I do not know what "George" means;
And now she calls me "Phillip."
TWO SWANS ASCENDING FROM STILL WATERS
must be a name too hard to remember.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
I am Assignment..
I am Chicana
Don't call me Hispanic. Don't call me.....Latina... Don't call me Mexican American. I want to be called Chicana. I am metiza-indigenous and Spanish. My heritage is struggle and strength. I join my strength and struggle to that of my hermanas, my sisters. I am a woman of Aztlan, southwestern.. Unites States..... I don't want to be called Hispanic because I don't want people to tell me who I am and where I come from.
Most of all, Of the people who call me Hispanic do not know that " Hispanic" is a term imposed on Americans of Latin decent by federal regulators, unprepared educators, and merchants who want our money but not with us. In the mid 1970's, the U.S Census Bureau first admitted that it's 1970 census had seriously under counted the people of Latin America decent in the... United States... Under the pressure from Latino activists'avoid a repetition of that mistake in the 1980 head count, the bureau searched for an all-encompassing word to describe the diverse assortment of Latin Americans living in this country: Mexican Americans and Mexican citizens, Puerto Rican and Cuban Americans and "other Hispanics" was the Census Bureau's Solution.
The term "Hispanic" denies my cultural heritage. However, a Chicana is both Hispanic and Indian. For the Chicana, her world has been shaped by historical forces beyond the barrio and this country. My ancestors are the Conquistadores and they conquered indigenous people in 1492. Our vanquished heritage has always haunted us and has been ignored by American Historians.
By: Martha Langarica
Don't call me Hispanic. Don't call me.....Latina... Don't call me Mexican American. I want to be called Chicana. I am metiza-indigenous and Spanish. My heritage is struggle and strength. I join my strength and struggle to that of my hermanas, my sisters. I am a woman of Aztlan, southwestern.. Unites States..... I don't want to be called Hispanic because I don't want people to tell me who I am and where I come from.
Most of all, Of the people who call me Hispanic do not know that " Hispanic" is a term imposed on Americans of Latin decent by federal regulators, unprepared educators, and merchants who want our money but not with us. In the mid 1970's, the U.S Census Bureau first admitted that it's 1970 census had seriously under counted the people of Latin America decent in the... United States... Under the pressure from Latino activists'avoid a repetition of that mistake in the 1980 head count, the bureau searched for an all-encompassing word to describe the diverse assortment of Latin Americans living in this country: Mexican Americans and Mexican citizens, Puerto Rican and Cuban Americans and "other Hispanics" was the Census Bureau's Solution.
The term "Hispanic" denies my cultural heritage. However, a Chicana is both Hispanic and Indian. For the Chicana, her world has been shaped by historical forces beyond the barrio and this country. My ancestors are the Conquistadores and they conquered indigenous people in 1492. Our vanquished heritage has always haunted us and has been ignored by American Historians.
By: Martha Langarica
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)