2550 Final Flashcards
“How to Spell Spic,” “Commonwealth,” “Cosecha”
Eric Morales-Franceschini
“Puerto Rican Obituary”
Pedro Pietri
“AmeRícan”
Tato Laviera
“Bilingual Blues”
Pérez Firmat
(collusion/collision, spiritual bilocation, Generation 1.5)
“To Live in the Borderlands”
Gloria Anzaldúa
“I am Joaquín”
Corky González
“Borders”
Denice Frohman
“Discovering Myself - Un Testimonio”
Chiqui Vicioso
(Afro-latinidad, Haití)
“Miami”
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, from Ecuador
She discussed her experience as being brought to the United States and the pressures she felt as the “Ideal Immigrant”. She stresses the importance of mental health awareness, and discusses the impacts of early childhood separation. Talks a lot about healthcare access
Pedro Albizu Campos
Leader of the Nationalist Party in PR
Pedro Pietri
Nuyorican Poets Cafe founder, wrote Puerto Rican /Obituary and Spanglish National Anthem
Tato Laviera
Nuyorican poet who wrote AmeRícan and My Graduation Speech
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
El Jefe, dictator of the Dominican Republic, led to the deaths of many, 31 years of dictatorship
Rita Moreno
acted in West Side Story
the first Latina to win an Oscar
Julia Álvarez
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies
From the upper-middle-class family that had to escape the Trujillo regime
Gustavo Pérez Firmat:
Author of Bilingual Blues: shares some of the difficulties he has encountered while juggling two languages. Collision (clash, resistance) vs. Collusion (acceptance)
Facts of Life on the Hyphen, spiritual bilocation (being in one place but mind is in another), 1.5 generation (kids that came to the US as teenagers but were not born here)
Hernán Badillo
First person of Puerto Rican descent (New Yorker) in U.S. House of Representatives
José Ángel Gutiérrez
founder of the Raza Unida Party
voting and education activist improved relations between the Chicano and Anglo communities
Erika Sánchez
Author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (set in Chicago, coming of age story)
Themes of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Inter-generational rifts, grief/death, mental health, immigration (including undocumented), religions in Latino culture
Julia, Olga, Juanga, Angie, Amá, Apá, Lorena, Mr. Ingman, Connor
characters in “I am not your perfect mexican daughter”
Elizabeth Acevedo
wrote Hair, The Poet X, and the poem “Afro-Latina”
Melania Luisa Marte
poet wrote “Afro-Latina”