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Ana Castillo

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[Wikipedia] Ana Castillo is a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar. Considered one of the leading voices in Chicana experience, Castillo is most known for her experimental style as a Latina novelist and for her intervention in Chicana femin

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For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity…

Commodity

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Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived,…

Concessions

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“When our mother is seen only as the one-dimensional Mary of modern times, instead of the great dual force of life and…

Class status

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I think the possibilities are endless in terms of what the genre would be like. However, in terms of looking for sources…

Bay area

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“You say your city the way some Americans say this is their country. You never feel right saying that - my country.…

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It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor…

Absolutes

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The man you love cooking for you is good for you too.

Cooking

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I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.

Language

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something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil...

Devil

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Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.

Littles

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I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic…

Acceptable

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People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.

People

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Many European countries are fascinated with minorities from the United States. They still see this country as a world power and they…

Beast

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I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that…

Chicago

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The writers who have been serious about recreating American literature have always been far and few between. What we do have at…

20th century

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Our goal should be to achieve joy

Achieve

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What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that…

Freedom

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We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic…

Dark

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“I ask the impossible: love me forever. Love me when all desire is gone. Love me with the single mindedness of a…

Every woman

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The language in New Mexico is very different. At first when you hear the speech here, you don't really know what to…

Believe

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Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

Humans

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I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented…

About

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I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the…

Activist

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my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't…

Attics

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