This week\u2019s reading hit home for me. Especially Aleichia Williams\u2019s article. The title alone, \u201cToo Latina To Be Black, Too Black To Be Latina,\u201d struck me because that exact statement has been an internal struggle of mine, or a \u201crace crisis\u201d as she puts it, for a long time. This is an issue that I don\u2019t think many people are aware of because it is not openly discussed often. Like the reoccurring concept we discuss in this class, most people aren\u2019t aware of or care about an issue unless it effects themselves. I enjoyed reading this article, I could relate to Williams\u2019s struggle with identity. Feeling excluded form communities, you should be embraced by and being put into a box by society. This reading reminded me of identity representation in the media, movies like West Side Story and In The Heights being celebrated for representation but only represent Hispanic people stereotypically. I didn\u2019t look like not one of the characters shown in either of those movies and it was discouraging. And this kind of representation feeds into the boxed\/restricted idea many people have of Latin people. While a movie like Disney\u2019s Encanto showed Hispanic people of all colors with different hair types, even the family members each looking different from one another. Seeing this kind of representation in a move made me emotional, finally having a depiction of a Hispanic family that resembles my own. Seeing Encanto made me hopeful that people seeing this kind of representation will eliminate \u201crace crisis\u201d because of unacceptance or being denied from communities because you ware \u201ctoo Black or Too Latin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week\u2019s readings, both \u201cToo Latina To Be Black, Too Black To Be Latina\u201d and Alicia Garza\u2019s \u201cThe Power of Identity Politics\u201d call attention to the way race and identity intertwine. Oftentimes, people try to separate race and identity and ethnicity without realizing how much identity truly impacts race. One cannot be discussed without the other. The separation of race, identity and ethnicity is what causes \u201crace crisis\u201d because it categorizes race with guidelines (\u201cif you\u2019re Hispanic you look and act like this, if you\u2019re Black your supposed to look and act like that\u201d). It is not a simple, white and black topic and these readings highlight that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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