Who had killed himself "for love of her" after "she ran
She was actually in love with a dark-skinned man Spaniard, not for love, but because she considered him socially superiorĭue to his skin color. In all honesty, her family was as dark as cajeta and as humble asĪ tortilla of nixtamal" (116). Celaya reflects that "Regina liked to think that by marryingĮleuterio Reyes she had purified her family blood, become Spanish, so to
Her future mother-in-law Regina, dislikes Soledad's appearanceīecause it reminds her "too much of her own humble roots" Whiter family in the city in search of work. Key detail is that Soledad was an Indian peasant who went to her richer, Story of how her Awful Grandmother, Soledad, became the way she is, a Other members of their family with dark skin. Only deny their roots, but they also demonstrate extreme racism toward History, she discovers a cycle of women of non-European origin and darkĬoloring internalizing the larger culture's racism. Within Celaya's family, ethnicity serves as the catalyst for To name a few of the different ethnicities that make up the population. "curly-haired, freckle-faced, red-headed Mexicans" (353), just Mexicans," Mexicans of African and Asian descent, and There are blonde Mexicans, Jewish Mexicans, "leftover-French Of Americans who expect all Mexicans to look alike, pointing out that "Non-Hispanic" dichotomy of United States census categories.Īt one point in the novel, the narrator Celaya vents about the ignorance To be far more complex than the "Hispanic" or In Sandra Cisneros's novel, Caramelo (NY: VintageĬontemporaries, 2003), the concept of Latina/o ethnic identity is shown
0 kommentar(er)
