ENGL 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Richard Rodriguez, General Idea, List Of Middle-Earth Rivers
7 Nov 2016
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Hunger of memory: issue of ethnicity (choice) and race (systematic classification, what are the consequences of abandoning ethnicity, richard rodriguez arges that race becomes manageable (once assimilated, brown skin can mean something else ex. Brown skin as leisure: he ignores racism, keeps returning to past to renounce, idea of obtaining freedom . Esperanza cordero is trying to escape childhood. Doesn"t want to be in barrio but does not want to leave community/people behind. Looking at choice is choosing what traditions you keep and abandon. Dealing with a world she did not create. Was a way to ensure that people of colour could not move into these neighbourhood, as they often could not earn enough themselves to purchase a home and sellers would not sell to poc. This was seen as a business opportunity by landlords, who rented out apartments/floors to multiple families. Moving from a housing 12-15 people to housing 30-40.
