Villanueva Response

BEFORE YOU READ:
When I first came to college I felt like an outsider where I lived. There were fourteen new people who knew nothing about each other. We eventually got really close but there are still somethings that we haven't told everyone that we live with about ourselves. We have certain people who are closer to each other than they are with others, but over all we are a very close group of people.

SUMMARY:
This article was very unorganized. Villanueva gives many different accounts, poems, stories, and pieces from his own book about how people of color are discriminated and face racism. He uses the exerts from other authors then compares and contrasts it to his own personal experiences and life.

SYNTHESIS: 3
First connection is to bell hooks, with the shared subject of how "colored" people are treated and how they react to different things in their lives. Second connection is to Bryson with the force of habit, people of a certain background or shared interest do not categorize themselves after a certain time, they let others do so and they do not correct them. Third connection, Wardel with a sense of identity and belonging, if you feel that you do both of these you are accepting of your heritage.

DIALECTICAL NOTEBOOK

RESPONSE	QUOTE:
This quote makes me think of how people have been told to act a different way based on their race.	And I'd say the need to reclaim and retain the memory of the imperial lords, those who have forcibly changed the identities of people of color through colonization. 172
This ties to how he used them in the way that based off of what happened in other peoples accounts ties into his own life.	The narratives of people of color jog our memories as a collective in a scattered world and within an ideology that praises individualism. 175
He talks about how the past makes us all who we are. This also ties to how using our individuality we can teach students in a different way.	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
This ties to how he talks about asking the grandfather about the past so that it does not go unheard.	Now some part of that first impulse reasserts itself, fictionalizing, telling the story, reaching back to the heritage that is at risk of passing away quickly. 171
This ties to how discourse communities tie people together and how who you are as a person can possibly affect how you are received into the group.	Academic discourse tries, after all, to reach the Aristotelian ideal of being completely logocentric, though it cannot be freed of the ethical appeal to authority. 172
Even if we are not racist or have been around it growing up, eventually somewhere in life we will come face to face with it in some way.	Yet little things happen that betray the underlying racism that affects us all, no matter how appalled by racism we might be. 174

AE #3
People who were American citizens but have another cultural background and they are socialized to act American and forget their hertitage. Taking yourself up by the bootstraps is saying that you will learn your native style regardless.

THOUGHTS: 5
I thought this article was by far the worst we have had to read thus far. His organization was terrible and I did not understand the point he was trying to get across until the third or fourth page. He talks about academic discourse which we have never heard of, so maybe that is what he considers to be a discourse community. I did not like this article at all.