Category Archives: Aztlán

Encapsulated

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Julio Sueco

Xicanismo suffers from cultural encapsulation. Most Xicano figures are so immersed in a minority role that they can’t lift their heads to see that they are being studied by nit just ourselves but by a host of international guest who … Continue reading →

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will we ever

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Julio Sueco

Reading the latest stats from the U.S. Census Bureau which I was prompted to do by the feedline @TheAtlantic churns out on its twitter feed I realize that Chicanos don’t exist in that database by any definition. Then again I … Continue reading →

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Constraints

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Julio Sueco

I tend to adopt an attitude towards language that it’s nearly pristine in its stipulations since I exact a nativists view on language that cannot possibly meet the standards I want. That is, I want what it is said in … Continue reading →

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killjoy

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Julio Sueco

Bad little voice bad little boys sing a llulaby that kisses me bye-bye Kill me softly with my own locally grown bad feelings murder my ego because it wants to feel me good Little hell constructed comments that eat me … Continue reading →

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Quinto comment II

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Julio Sueco

In relation to the Fifth Comment: Here in Sweden, Swedes can’t see beyond my ethnic look or what their eyes tell them I am. A brown person. So the idea of an American has also been hijacked by color lines. … Continue reading →

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Malplaced Autoctono II

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Julio Sueco

Y es por eso que me pregunto cómo es que viven los güeros en México. Y es que los mexicanos que vivimos en el extranjero damos cuenta de varias cosas que la élite de México no quisiera que nosotros supiéremos … Continue reading →

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La identidad tijuanense

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Julio Sueco

Esta versión pronto aparecerá en el San Diego Reader en inglés también. A pesar del hecho de que el crimen acosa la vida cotidiana, y aunque usted no lo crea, no está uno acostumbrado ni al crimen ni a cadáveres pues, … Continue reading →

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Jovita Gonzáles 8th comment

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Julio Sueco

In A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles1 a seldom researched area is taken to task, namely, that of assimilation of Anglos in what is a predominantly Spanish-Mexican dominated territory era. Anglos converted to Catholicism and abade by Hispanic customs. … Continue reading →

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Jovita Gonzáles 7th comment

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Julio Sueco

Carmen Fought has done a remarkable job by giving us a structured form of ChE. I haven’t read Chicano English in Context through and through though but I have stopped in certain passages where my eyes have noticed the value … Continue reading →

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Beware of camping Latinos

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Julio Sueco

Forest Service warns Coloradans: Beware of camping Latinos By John Tomasic 8/28/09 6:41 PM In a presentation on recent discoveries of major marijuana-cultivation operations in Colorado, the U.S. Forest Service said it suspected an international cartel was behind the state’s … Continue reading →

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