Just two years ago, the editor of a major publishing firm asked me to submit a story for a middle school reader. those readers have the power to shape how thousands of children think about mexican americans. the criteria were: "it can't have religion in it; it can't be mystical; it can't have spanish in it." everything that was in bless me, ultima was rejected out of hand before the publisher would look at a manuscript. needless to say, i did not submit a story. —"take the tortillas out of your poetry," rudolfo anaya the voice of this anecdote establish the idea that anaya is to influence middle school students by teaching them about mexican americans. disappointed because a publishing company will not accept what anaya believes is a good mexican american story. annoyed that the publishers rejected his story without bothering to read it.

which of the following was specifically permitted by the emancipation proclamation?

free african americans were allowed to fight for the confederacy.

free african americans were allowed to enlist in the union army and navy.

enslaved people in border states were allowed to move to the north.

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femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.

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