Leave Your Name At The Border Flashcards
What does it mean to be a Mexican?
It means, essentially, “not white”
What are not part of everyday life in the valley?
Chicano, Hispanic, Mexican-American and Latino
The gate agent at the Fresno airport was?
Mexican
Who was the missing customer?
Eugenio Reyes
What did Manuel lied about in the story?
He lied about living in Fresno, but really lives in little Dinuba
What is Fresno?
It is a booming city with a diversity of of white, Mexican, African-American, Armenian, Hmong, and Middle East people
Many of the authors cousins and siblings are?
Bilingual, serving as translators for those family whose English is barely functional.
Who falls into which group of Manuel’s family?
Estella, Eric, Delia, Dubina, Melanie.
Spanish was and still is viewed with ____?
Suspicion
What has Spanish vilified?
It vilified illegal immigrant, segregated schoolchildren into English-only and bilingual programs; it defined you, above all else, as part of a lower class.
How important is English?
It was the language of the white population and a path toward the richer, expansive identity of “American.”
Manuel stated, “Saying a Mexican name “in English” was our unwittingly complicit gesture of trying to _______?
Blend in
What did Manuel’s stepfather explained about his name?
His name was about deference and subservience.
Manuel went to college at ______ and was confronted for the first take by people who said his name correctly.
East Coast
According to Manuel, what does language mean?
Language is all about manipulation, or not listening to the rules.
