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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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black / Maybe

black / Maybe

Garcia, Roberto

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0999223291
ISBN13: 9780999223291
Publisher: Willow Publishing
Published: Mar 1 2018
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Poetry collection by Roberto Carlos Garcia. Explores themes of blackness and Dominican culture.

I'm American, but I don't speak English because I'm from England and I'm a Latino that doesn't speak Spanish because I'm from Spain. I speak these languages thanks to a long history of colonialism, to be more specific, the losing end of colonialism. The flight attendant who poured my whiskey is a Spaniard. Spanish has been his national language for centuries and his family's language for generations. When he hears me, a mutt with African, Chinese, and Spanish blood (but who leans more towards the African), does he consider me a fraud? Does he see me as parroting Spanish? Now, this poor flight attendant is a fill in, of course, but you get the picture. What do most Spaniards think about the Spanish speakers in the colonies they lost all those years ago? Do they care? Why should I? --from Trapped in History, EnglishKillsReview.com

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