Kategori: Aztlan
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Know your history
1970 – Diana vs. State Board of Education of California – Spanish speaking children were placed in classes for children with mental retardation on the basis of individual intelligence tests that were considered culturally biased.
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poema
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La civilización pocha en México
Julio de la Fuente La civilización pocha en México Acta Anthropolígica (1948): IV. 437-459 Como otros contactos, éste ha creado un tipo de personalidad, sujeto, y agente de cambios a la vez, un hombre marginal, asentado desigualmente en ambas civilizaciones. Avizoramos este tipo, sin llegarlo a precisar bien, en algunos nahuatizados, pertenecientes a distintos grupos…
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cotidiene
I stood in shock and speechless at the very image that was unfolding like a motion picture right before my eyes. I understood the power of cultural shocks, the power of cultural encounters and the power of feeling superior right after the incident. I know how to eat an avocado, un ahuacatl, and my swedish…
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Xicano: Militant Califas Xicano
Some rather interesting blogs are beginning to surface, for example, Xicano Militant Califas Xicano. This guy is giving out the word on other aspects of xicanismo, streetwise. He has been at it for a year now and the writ stuff is golden. His kind of xicanismo is one that I no longer associate myself with…
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2
Ok, two rather odd issues are coalescing today though with a very intriguing geographic location in common: Texas. First things first. I was reading some of Daily Texican’s posts today and I was reminded of a very old sting I suffered at his hands. If you read very carefully, DT’s blog has a warning text…
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one last time
I must confess that when I think of this blog its death is my wish. I want to do away with it yet somehow, it remains. This is due because all my ideas are channeled throught the spanish blog and by the time I near this blog I have emptied my soul unto God’s language.…
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Hindsight
I realize that reading Octavio Paz was a bad taste of Castor Oil. I remember clearly refusing to read anything of him after I read El Laberinto de la Soledad. I was extremely offended by the chapter : Pachucos y otros extremos. For some reason I thought it reflected the general attitude most mexicans have…
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Know thyself
Mi pecho grita por dentro la falta de ganas o el saciamento de algo muy bueno tornado malísimo. El vacio de afuera me llena la mirada de nada. No hay humor. Es tiempo de reflexión. Andar solo, pensar. Caminar por las calles y dejar que la vida corra su curso. Es tiempo de observar, rumiar.…
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Chican@s and Wikipedia
Oh no you didn’t. Boy do I have bones to pick here. I shall be dishing out more than I bargained for but one can’t overstate the deliciousness of the subject. Right now I am about to do serious deconstructing over at Wikipedia and give them a verbal whipping or two. Coming soon, more Xicano…