Villanueva

Before You Read.

I feel that yes, I have considered myself to be an outsider at some points in my life. And yes, I have had to assert my religious background before.

Summary.

In this article, "Memoria is a Friend of Ours: On the Discourse of Color", Villanueva gives examples of authors who write about their memories and things being minorities. He also really just talks about race and whatnot and says how color can reflect on the author's memories. He also talk about communities and discourse.

Synthesis.

One person that can be related to this article is Porter. I say this because Porter talks about intertextuality and discourse communities. Also, Heilker and Yergeau because all people can be made fun of from different situations. Another person that can be related is Bryson. Bryson talks about force of habit that can be very difficult to break.

Response	Quotation
This was a connection with me because my grandpa speaks Spanish.	“Remember to call your grandpa abuelo. He'll like the sound of that, since none of my sister's kids have called him that” (171).
Everyone has different memories and things can be remembered differently between people. This just made me think of my personal memories.	“Memory simply cannot be adequately portrayed in the conventional discourse of the academy” (172).
I wasn't sure what I thought about this. I mean yes, clearly, it is true.	“Those of us who are light-skinned don't pass for white; we're just not automatically sorted into the appropriate slot” (174).
This made me think of how far we have come as a country. Also how racism still exists in our world today.	“Yet little things happen that betray the underlying racism that affects us all, no matter how appalled by racism we might be” (174).
I didn't really understand this and the more I read it, the more confused I get.	“I am these uneasy mixes of races that make for no race at all yet find themselves victim to racism” (176).
I am not sure what it is about this, but I really like it a lot. It made me stop and think about myself and what the future is holding for me.	“Looking back, we look ahead, and giving ourselves up to the looking back and the looking ahead, knowing the self, and, critically, knowing the self in relation to others, maybe we can be and instrument whereby students can hear the call” (176).

AE.

I didn't really get it so I Googled it. I got something kind of like, "improving oneself by one's own efforts". I think that a group always needs to stick together to survive in any given situation and stay strong with what they believe in.

Thoughts.

I guess I found this article interesting. The poems were something thrown in writing that I wasn't really used to seeing so that was kind of nice. This was a little boring though and dragged out too. Overall, discourse communities will always be around and everyone belongs in one no matter what they think.