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Segregation and therefore, environmental racism, food deserts, unequal ed, predatory loans, income suppression, theft, lower life expectancy, income disparity btwn Black & White families, and more was deliberate, calculated, and mandated by US govt policy.

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Monterey Park I was thinking, if I had to live in one place in the U.S., it’d be Monterey Park. A place with close friends, good food, Kung Fu tournaments, and an unapologetically Asian attitude. Can’t read the sign? Sorry buddy, 你應該要學漢子. Can only speak Mandarin, but not Cantonese? Sorry buddy, prepared to get even worse service. Can you speak Taiwanese? Alright buddy, prepared to be introduced to the family. With the recent mass shooting in that area during Lunar New Year, be sure to check in with love ones and give support where you can. With the tragedy also in Half Moon Bay, this is all getting so fucking exhausting. - #montereypark #asianamerican #ethnoburb #littletaipei #ethnicstudies #asian #taiwanese #chinese #cantonese #mandarin #thisisamerica #guncontrol #mentalhealth (at Monterey Park, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoH6hzlJ1K3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Latinx identity is very complicated as is with so many overlapping identities so deeply embedded into our culture, from the Indigenous cultural practices that continued their way into Spanish Catholic religion or the ways in which African and Indigenous beats have created countless Spanish genres of music. The expression of such blending is still seen within media and language tools within the United States and how they reach cross-culturally and nationally. Pinto poetics describe the ways in which generational evolution forms of expression about mass incarceration. Maiz narratives dive deeper into the ways in which we navigate not feeling wanted or without belonging. Radio has served as a great driver of this as it is one of the earliest forms of television that can be done in between commutes to work and reach a large spanning audience. Piolin por la Mañana is not only a national hit amongst Latinos within the U.S. but internationally as well, growing up I would hear this show every day on my way to school as my father dropped me off. And while yes a lot of it was funny and scandalous hits it also played the latest Latinx hits but most importantly he created a community amongst Spanish speaking, heavy immigrant communities in the U.S. He informed the masses where health clinics would be, what lawyers are good or are scamming people and many other opportunities. And now with the help of different social media, other creatives are also able to explore the ways in which they are able to explore their hybrid identity. Take for example Snow tha Product, a Mexicana rapper, who first blew up a few years back on Facebook for her single "Waste of Time". Hip-hop has often served as a catalyst for change and Snow the Product demands just that both directly and indirectly, she calls upon the breaking of generational curses, calls out the Obama administration for its record-breaking numbers of deportations, and proudly flaunts her culture as she often raps in both English, Spanish and Spanglish. All while being a queen Latina she truly speaks for a community, she further proves the validity of a hybrid sense of being. Spanglish has often been discredited as a broken language but it proves itself to be a hybrid language that serves the masses and builds bridges instead of barriers. Those who understand Spanglish understand two language contexts and that should be admired and further used not shunned like how we have sadly seen in schools and communities alike.

The occupation of white spaces is something that as Latinx peoples are always struggling to break through. As mentioned in the previous blog post within sci-fi and comics it took a lot to break through same as we see with performing arts, having to break through typically and predominately white spaces, such as broadway, to create a counter narrative and shed light on something once hidden. This is powered through the performance os Mestizaje and Indigeneity. Mestizaje a framework working to highlight the ways in which a hybrid way of being is constructed upon both mind and body. Indigeneity highlights the ways in which we understand spirituality, empowerment and liberation through the practice, representation and creative expression of said bodies. These works drive conversation of inclusion, diversity and civil rights. Zoot Suit written by Louis Valdez, the godfather of Chicano culture, had notably won a medal of arts granted by the Obama administration with its highlights of Chicano, Pachuco, culture and the ways in which they faced discrimination during the riots of the 1940s. Mexican Americans in 1940s would be racially discriminated against by the police due to their fashion, Pachuco fashion, a more loose and baggy fitting clothing style type casted as gang wear who were met with violence from sailors at bay ending with some Chicano kids behind bars. Telling a story of resistance as the infamous Pachuco character serves as the spiritual component letting us know that in the hopelessness there must be hope that while things changes they stay the same and we can constantly overcome this sense of none belonging. Entertainment with a purpose, a purpose to educate, open eyes, inspire, and demonstrate how we haven't made as much progress as we think all reminding us that Valdez's work began at its roots causes in migrant farm worker fields. Performance is done anywhere it is needed on a stage of any level even individual.

Gracias @libromobile ‼️‼️‼️ Posted @withregram • @libromobile Check out some of the new books in our Ethnic Studies section! Núria Vilanova's outstanding book is about borders, people, and texts. Border Texts: Writing Fiction From Northern Mexico studies the relationship between the Mexico-U.S. border and some of the fiction produced in the area. What are the different presences of the border within these texts? Is the border so powerful as to permeate the aesthetics and literary discourse of such texts? Can the multidimensional space of the border be determinant in the making of fiction? After a review of border dynamics within the Mexico-U.S. context, with a look at border and Chicano studies, Border Texts explores the fiction of Jesús Gardea and Luis Humberto Crosthwaite. Latin Americanist Núria Vilanova has devoted much of her research to the Mexico-U.S. border from a cultural and literary perspective. After completing her Ph.D. at Liverpool University (1993), Vilanova established herself as an authority on Peruvian literature. She has taught in several universities in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. She is the author of The Impact of Social Change upon Literature: Social Change and Literature in Peru Peru (1970-1990) (1998). #ethnicstudies #borderstudies #diversebooks #sdsupress #tinybookstore https://www.instagram.com/p/CS2IGosJKeT/?utm_medium=tumblr

Just sharing a part of the work my sons created in the Asian American Ethnic Studies Class.