Tag: social positioning
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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
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Appropriating Whiteness by Accident.
I didn’t do it on purpose. I mean I may have started to enunciate my words a certain way in middle school because “the way I spoke” was commented on a few times by white peers, but I swear I didn’t seek out to appropriate a white accent or mannerisms. I also didn’t purposely choose […]
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Please don’t call me “super liberal” Here’s why…
I’m the first to admit that I didn’t start voting until I was 28. I don’t really have a solid reason. I wasn’t anti-politics or making our nation and communities a better place. I could blame it on my parents since they couldn’t vote because they weren’t citizens, but I’m past that. There was definitely […]
Suzanne García-Mateus
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Where is the controversy in Franglais, Singlish, or Spanglish?
Where is it? Why does it exist? How can the problem be solved? Is there a problem? The answers to all of these questions really just depends on who you are speaking to and, in my opinion, where they stand. I will just be frank about my perspective. There are economic, political, and social implications […]
Suzanne García-Mateus