I remember being caught speaking Spanish at recess
[...] I remember being sent to the corner of the classroom
for “talking back” to the Anglo teacher when all I was trying
to do was tell her how to pronounce my name. “If you
want to be American, speak ‘American’. If you don’t like it,
go back to Mexico where you belong”.
“I want you to speak English […]”, my mother would
say, mortified that I spoke English like a Mexican. At Pan
American University, I and all Chicano students were
required to take two speech classes. Their purpose: to get
rid of our accents.
ANZALDÚA, G. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.
San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987.
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