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    Borderlands Reading Analysis: Mexicanismo. To Separate From My Culture (As From My Family) I Had To Feel Competent Enough

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    This document contains two passages from a reading analysis by Lourdes Chavez. In the first passage, Chavez discusses feeling fully immersed in Mexican culture growing up, and how separating from that culture to gain independence required feeling competent and secure in her identity. However, she notes that her Mexican culture and origins remain deeply ingrained within her. In the second passage, Chavez expresses a desire to craft her own identity and cultural standpoint rather than be defined by others, and if unable to return home, to create a new mestizo culture on her own terms with a feminist perspective.

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    This document contains two passages from a reading analysis by Lourdes Chavez. In the first passage, Chavez discusses feeling fully immersed in Mexican culture growing up, and how separating from that culture to gain independence required feeling competent and secure in her identity. However, she notes that her Mexican culture and origins remain deeply ingrained within her. In the second passage, Chavez expresses a desire to craft her own identity and cultural standpoint rather than be defined by others, and if unable to return home, to create a new mestizo culture on her own terms with a feminist perspective.

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    Lourdes Chavez

    Doctor Holc
    PS 364.02: International Relation Non-Western Lens
    27 October 2015
    Borderlands Reading Analysis
    What feels strong or compelling to you?
    What feels off-base or what do you wonder about?
    I feel perfectly free to rebel and to rail against my culture. I fear no betrayal on my part because,
    unlike Chicanas and other women of color who grew up white or who have only recently
    returned to their native cultural roots, I was totally immersed in mine. It wasnt until I went tot
    high school that I saw whites. Unitl I worked on my masters degree I had not gotten within an
    arms distance of them. I was totally immersed en lo mexicano, a rural, peasant, isolated,
    mexicanismo. To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough
    on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not
    lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I
    carry home on my back. troubling to me.
    I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with asjhes, to
    fashion my own gods out of my entrails. And if going home is denied me, then I will have to
    stand and claim my space, making a new cultureuna cultura mestizowith my own lumber,
    my own bricks and mortar and my own feminist architecture. wants to gain power abnd have
    her standpoint become the standpoint of cultura mestizo.
    Who are you?

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