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While my original memoir was going to be about my relationship with my troubled mother when I was a teenager, I am shifting focus now. I think I’d rather write about how the Conants erased their Mexican heritage, and link this to a general pattern of families doing this in the Southwest. It is crucial, given the drumbeat of hatred against Mexicans in the US at this time, to remind Americans that most of us with roots in the West are Mexican, whether we admit it or not.
I liken the Conant erasure of our Mexican ancestors to the tendency in white Southern families to erase their African and Native American ancestors.
I’ve submitted a proposal to do an in-depth magazine piece about the Conant’s Mexican line for Albuquerque magazine. I will then submit that as a book proposal for “Erasing the Mexicans.”
How about it, guys? Do any of you have similar stories?
Proudly Chicana (and a whole mess of other things) at last,
Alisa
-Erasing the Mexicans
Racialicious is full of good reads. I swear, I did know about this site before you linked that other essay (<--- recommended reading) Mia, I just hadn't actually gone there and... read stuff. Many thanks.
I liken the Conant erasure of our Mexican ancestors to the tendency in white Southern families to erase their African and Native American ancestors.
I’ve submitted a proposal to do an in-depth magazine piece about the Conant’s Mexican line for Albuquerque magazine. I will then submit that as a book proposal for “Erasing the Mexicans.”
How about it, guys? Do any of you have similar stories?
Proudly Chicana (and a whole mess of other things) at last,
Alisa
-Erasing the Mexicans
Racialicious is full of good reads. I swear, I did know about this site before you linked that other essay (<--- recommended reading) Mia, I just hadn't actually gone there and... read stuff. Many thanks.