![]() ![]() How "My mother could go on and on." his uniforms were trimmed with tassels and gold epaulettes and red sashes, pinned with his medals. How plumes for "All of this in a tropical country where men wore his Napoleonic hats were purchased in Paris and guayaberas." shipped in vacuum-packed boxes to the Island. ![]() How in order to appear taller, his shoes were specially made abroad with built-in "Trujillo's vanity knew no bounds." heels that added inches to his height. central idea of this excerpt? When my sisters and I cared too much about our "My sisters and I cared too much about our appearance, my mother would tell us how Trujillo's appearance." vanity knew no bounds. Tags: AnaLouise Keating, Aunt Lute Books, Claire Joysmith, Gloria Anzaldúa, Julia Alvarez, Norma Alarcón, Norma Elia Cantú, Paola Bacchetta, poetry, Rusty Barcelo, Sandra Cisneros, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, T.Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice" by Julia Which quotation provides the best evidence for the Alvarez. Jackie Cuevas, Claire Joysmith, and AnaLouise Keating. Includes an Introduction by Sonia Saldívar-Hull an interview with Gloria Anzaldúa and contributions by Norma Alarcón, Julia Alvarez, Paola Bacchetta, Rusty Barcelo, Norma Elia Cantú, Sandra Cisneros, T. Borderlands/La Frontera remaps understandings of what a “border” is, seeing it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa’s experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenge how we think about identity. One of Hungry Mind Review’s “Best 100 Books of the 20th Century”.Selected by Utne Reader as part of its “Alternative Canon” in 1998. ![]()
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