Dec 6, 2013
I'm going to take Spanish classes. I'm really fed up with being unable to communicate with parts of the community I'm from and left out of.
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I'm going to take Spanish classes. I'm really fed up with being unable to communicate with parts of the community I'm from and left out of.
Just a heads up.
Spanish is a language from colonizers too. Don't give me shit about only knowing English, telling me I need to "decolonize" by speaking Spanish. No, if I were to decolonize, I'd speak Yaqui or Nahuatl.
Hispanicized Mexican Americans themselves often construct a "racial" gulf between themselves and "illegal aliens" and "wetbacks."
Neil Foley, Becoming Hispanic: Mexican Americans and Whiteness, (2002)
side note: I am very familiar this particular "gulf". Raised with an anti-minority minority narrative in the city of San Antonio, these sentiments and their rhetoric contributed to my moving to the Northwest. Articulating the pain of the internalization of a self-hating narrative. As well as, pinpointing where it originates, are a couple of things I address in my artwork.