What effect did Selena have on you and your own understanding of Latinx culture? Below is an interview with Rodriguez and Marco Werman. Rodriguez shared how Quintanilla's music is helping Latinx students form their own identities and think critically about the lack of Latinx representation.
I spent a lot of my early childhood in San Antonio, Texas, and I grew up listening to Tejano radio stations. My grandfather was from Mexico. He, my grandmother, my mother and my uncle all spoke Spanish. My family wanted me to learn English first so that I would be successful in school. I grew up in a household hearing Spanish all around me, but I spoke English. I didn't speak Spanish correctly. I never really felt like I belonged. I wasn't Mexican enough, or American enough.
Selena helped me identify with a Latino person that I had never been able to understand. She sang in Spanish, but spoke in English and talked about her own identity and mispronounced words in Spanish. This person that was in the middle, that was living a bicultural life. I saw a lot of myself in Selena. She helped me know that there wasn't one correct way to be a Latinx individual.
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Article one: the new york tribune from december 5, 1859on leaving the jail, john brown had on his face an expression of calmness andserenity characteristic of the patriot who is about to die with a living consciousnessthat he is laying his life down for the good of his fellow as he stepped outof the door a black woman, with her little child in her arms, stood near his way. thetwain were of the despised race for whose emancipation and elevation to the dignityof children of god he was about to lay down his he stopped for a moment in hiscourse, stooped over, and with the tenderness of one whose love is as broad as thebrotherhood of man, kissed [the child) affectionately.article two: the cincinnati enquirer from december 3, 1859we rejoice that old brown has been hung. he was not only a murderer of innocentpersons, but he attempted one of the greatest crimes against society-the stirring upof a servile and civil war. he has paid the penalty for his crimes, and we hope his fatemay be a warning to all who might have felt inclined to imitate his aggressive conduct.now it is your turn. you need to synthesize the two articles mentioned above into one or two paragraphs. you may lookat the synthesized paragraphs above for an example, but your paragraph should be different. remember to follow theprocess hints mentioned earlier in this lesson.iuflad