Good Talk Final Project
After reading "Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations", by Mira Jacob, I immediately related to a lot of the themes that were presented within the story that was told. From talking about the worries of raising a child wrong (I had felt a bit of this for trying to help raise my little brother when we were younger and my father had left our home) to the theme of having people stereotype you based off of race, something that stuck out to me most was around the idea of being ethnically ambiguous with the husband of the author, Jed. In this story, Jed is a Jewish minority who happens to be "white-passing". This was something that I had connected with because I don't look like the average Mexican due to my skin color and American accent. I often surprise people with my Spanish speaking skills, especially considering that it was the first language I learned. I'm a first-generation-born American in the United States (first to go to college, etc.), so it makes sense that I'd be able to adopt a lot of the tendencies of being an "American". But oftentimes, I find myself not being able to connect with my heritage despite only being one generation away from being born in Mexico. Because of that, I have a hard time figuring out what my identity is. I think that it's pretty obvious that I'm not white, but because of my skin color, I think that it's hard to pin down what my ethnicity is. Going from that train of thought, inspired me to make this collage of just a few things I've heard said to me and things that I've thought regarding my Ethnical ambiguity.













