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Y tú ¿qué hora traes?
Unpacking the Privileges of Dominant Groups in México
Author:
This book is a collection of essays and anecdotes in which the author recounts some of her lived experiences. She shares these anecdotes to unpack her privilege while exposing the toxicity of privileged groups in Mexican society; the documented, wealthy, middle-class, white, white-passing, bilingual, non-Black, non-Indigenous, educated, catholic, heterosexual, cisgender, and able-bodied.
While talking about herself, her family, and the education system as she experienced it, the author talks about her process of unlearning ingrained nocive values such as colorblindness, ethnocentrism, and toxic nationalism.
Also touched upon are some of the nocive behaviors and rhetoric that privileged Mexicans (in Mexico) carry with themselves because of their failure to challenge the multiple systems of oppression that they benefit from.
Y tú ¿qué hora traes? represents but a tiny fraction of the problems, power structures and social injustices that remain unchallenged in Mexico. It is the authorâs hope to continue to grow her understanding of the issues that are presented here and to continue working from a self-reflective perspective.
While talking about herself, her family, and the education system as she experienced it, the author talks about her process of unlearning ingrained nocive values such as colorblindness, ethnocentrism, and toxic nationalism.
Also touched upon are some of the nocive behaviors and rhetoric that privileged Mexicans (in Mexico) carry with themselves because of their failure to challenge the multiple systems of oppression that they benefit from.
Y tú ¿qué hora traes? represents but a tiny fraction of the problems, power structures and social injustices that remain unchallenged in Mexico. It is the authorâs hope to continue to grow her understanding of the issues that are presented here and to continue working from a self-reflective perspective.
Ana C. Lopez, M.A. (2016), New Mexico State University, is a Doctoral Candidate at the Special Education Department, with a concentration in Bilingual and Multicultural Special Education, as well as a minor in Family Consumer Sciences at that university.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Positionality and Social Class
â1 The Middle-Class
â2 Meritocracy
â3 Documented in the United States
â4 The Value of English
â5 Classist Depictions of Underprivileged Populations
2 A Catholicism I Know
â1 Class and Catholic-isms
â2 Diversity?
â3 Our Bigotry towards lgbtq+ Groups
â4 Temor de Dios: The Fear of God
â5 Dios Me Ve
â6 Between Silence and Sexuality
â7 La Culpa
â8 Religious Schooling and Sexuality
3 Imposed Gendered Roles
â1 La Familia es Primero
â2 Marianismo and Machismo
â3 A Feminism that Does Not Work for Everyone
4 Racism in Mexico: Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente
â1 Xenophobia en Nuestra Casa
â2 Ethnocentrism and Anti-Indigeneity
â3 Humor and Media: Time for Accountability
â4 The Influence of Media: Present and Past
â5 Our Education
5 Ableism
6 Towards a New Light
References
Introduction
1 Positionality and Social Class
â1 The Middle-Class
â2 Meritocracy
â3 Documented in the United States
â4 The Value of English
â5 Classist Depictions of Underprivileged Populations
2 A Catholicism I Know
â1 Class and Catholic-isms
â2 Diversity?
â3 Our Bigotry towards lgbtq+ Groups
â4 Temor de Dios: The Fear of God
â5 Dios Me Ve
â6 Between Silence and Sexuality
â7 La Culpa
â8 Religious Schooling and Sexuality
3 Imposed Gendered Roles
â1 La Familia es Primero
â2 Marianismo and Machismo
â3 A Feminism that Does Not Work for Everyone
4 Racism in Mexico: Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente
â1 Xenophobia en Nuestra Casa
â2 Ethnocentrism and Anti-Indigeneity
â3 Humor and Media: Time for Accountability
â4 The Influence of Media: Present and Past
â5 Our Education
5 Ableism
6 Towards a New Light
References
Mexican scholars who want to explore their own privilege and positionality may feel identified with some of the stories in this book as well as people who are eager to learn about Mexican forms of oppression towards vulnerable populations from different dimensions..