Tag: gentrification

• Children’s Book Review: My Papi has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero

  A CHILDREN’S BOOK THAT HONORS CHICANX STUDENTS CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC HERITAGE It was an honor to write a blog post promoting Isabel Quintero’s book, My Papi Has a Motorcycle, for many reasons, but one of them is because I also grew up in Southern California. The illustrations, Zeke Peña, created resonated with me because they reflected…

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  May 13, 2019

  Bilingual Product(s)

  agency, bicultural, bilingual, bilingual children, bilingual life, bilingualism, california dual language, Chincanx, culturally sustaining, gentrification, identity, immigrant, mexican, mexican-american, multicultural books, multilingual books, social positioning, spanglish, translanguaging

• Living in White (Public) Spaces

  It never fails. I’m sitting in a cafe working away. Totally focused on my next writing project when I do what I always do. I look around the cafe (sometimes restaurant or store) and see who is present? Who is accounted for? Who is there? Who has the privilege of buying the food I’m buying.…

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  December 16, 2016

  Uncategorized

  austinlife, bicultural, bilingual, gentrification, Texas, translanguaging