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Book SynopsisThis 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 author’s hope to continue to grow her understanding of the issues that are presented here and to continue working from a self-reflective perspective.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Positionality and Social Class 1 The Middle-Class 2 Meritocracy 3 Documented in the United States 4 The Value of English 5 Classist Depictions of Underprivileged Populations 2 A Catholicism I Know 1 Class and Catholic-isms 2 Diversity? 3 Our Bigotry towards lgbtq+ Groups 4 Temor de Dios: The Fear of God 5 Dios Me Ve 6 Between Silence and Sexuality 7 La Culpa 8 Religious Schooling and Sexuality 3 Imposed Gendered Roles 1 La Familia es Primero 2 Marianismo and Machismo 3 A Feminism that Does Not Work for Everyone 4 Racism in Mexico: Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente 1 Xenophobia en Nuestra Casa 2 Ethnocentrism and Anti-Indigeneity 3 Humor and Media: Time for Accountability 4 The Influence of Media: Present and Past 5 Our Education 5 Ableism 6 Towards a New Light References
