During this week’s readings, I kind of get a better understanding of what identity politics is when Garza first had pointed when she says, \u201cidentity politics is the radical notion that your worldview is shaped by your experiences and history and that those experiences will vary in relationship to the power a group or an individual has in the economy, society, or democracy.\u201d It made me think of the other author’s experience in Too Latina to be black, too black to be Latina. Where she experienced this crisis she had. I agree with what she says about learning to embrace every aspect of your identity and not let any other people put you in that position where you can\u2019t embrace your identity. There was a part she mentioned how when she got into high school a classmate told her \u201c You\u2019re the most Mexican black girl I\u2019ve ever met!\u201d and then she thought to herself saying \u201cI could remember thinking \u201cis that a compliment because my family is from Honduras\u201d. I can\u2019t be sure if my own experience is like what she went through because I remember when I was in high school people would ask me where I was from or would ask me what my name and I would tell them and they end up telling me \u201coh you don\u2019t look Mexican\u201d it\u2019s like what is that suppose to mean. Like yeah, I am Mexican-American but what are tryna say is that I don\u2019t look, Mexican. Like I do embrace my identity and where my family is from that makes me part of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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