Jocelyn Escalante
Jocelyn Escalante
Comments by Jocelyn Escalante
Comment by Jocelyn Escalante
Being able to recognize all these aspects throughout the unit, was very mesmerizing for me. The fact that most of these topics aren’t taught really brings a greater perspective of the untold history. It makes you see that there’s much more to learn and understand, because these are things that we continue to face in our world today. It brings a bigger challenge to ourselves, our culture, and to those around us. Dr. Topete mentions love and how many people recognize is it as romance or being romantic, but there’s also a greater picture to love and being able to value ourselves, by having that self-love. I think it’s so important, because it’s not recognize to have that. -Jocelyn Escalante
Comment by Jocelyn Escalante
The fact that this story reveals the truth history of Christopher Columbus and how back in school we were only taught about his famous voyage to the New World and how he has been a heroic figure in American history. It’s outrages that this holiday exists in the name of “good” when in fact many indigenous people had suffered tragic deaths, from being taken to Spain and not making it, to being sold as slaves, to being hung, and just killed to death. This along with the other units have shown us the erasure of history and how it has sadly impacted the past and continues to impact us today. -Jocelyn Escalante
Comment by Jocelyn Escalante
White supremacy has been and has continued to be a thing in the world, unless change is made. It has made so many indigenous people suffer through past history and even learning about it. Danny mentions how the city council was able to dictate what businesses can and can’t be open in a given area, but decide which one’s were able to operate, the fact that space became racialize and how these communities are being separated. The United States declares that they’re all about “equality” but this and many other notions show otherwise. How it is a world of opportunities, but yet in reality those opportunities don’t come even when they’re being pursued. -Jocelyn Escalante
Comment by Jocelyn Escalante
When Danny is talking about these women being policed and facing punishment, it took me back to the reading and it states “Poor conditions and racial abuse spurred African-American workers to flee work camps by the hundreds. When possible, they returned home, but many escaped inland.” It’s sad to think that racism and discrimination ever existed in the first place, because there are issues in which still exist today. It leaves these wounds and trauma that throughout the centuries we’ve seen. -Jocelyn Escalante
Comment by Jocelyn Escalante
In the podcast, Danny mentions the recognition of racial history, specifically when he said “the violence done in our bodies, lands, and spirit” and it resonated with me because last unit we learned so much untold history, a history that isn’t mentioned and should be recognized. With that many people ignore the racialized differences and racialized historical understanding which leads to being miseducated about the past.
Comment by Jocelyn Escalante
Watching Apocalypto when I was younger, I never really understood the real meaning behind it. However, now that I’ve watched it, listened to the podcast and read the article about Making Mayan Men, there is so much more to it. In the article it talks about the movie and the representation it gives. In which it engages in a fetishistic violence in representation of sacrificial scenes by men (priests, warriors, and rulers). Portraying so much violence into the Mayan civilization and culture. It all comes to indigenous people being affected by it, because of the misleading representation of them which the movie Apocalypto. It contributes to the misconception of these people. -Jocelyn Escalante
Comment by Jocelyn Escalante
The quote that is stated, “Often viewed as hardly Mexican, Indian, or American enough we must choose carefully which aspect of our culture to internalize or reject.” It took me back to the reading of Anguished Past, Troubled Present by Torres when she specifically talks about her father hating the Mexican in him and not understanding Spanish. This follows up to her siblings also learning and taking on the steps of their father. To personally reflect on this, I believe it is important to know your roots and how important it is to know where you come from because it shapes the person you’re today. Culture identity is a huge role into our religion, race, ethnicity, etc. -Jocelyn Escalante
Comment by Jocelyn Escalante
Hello, listening to the podcast this particular section stood out to me the most, the Edict of Expulsion that affected the Jews. They only had a few months to convert to Christianity or leave Spain under the penalty of death/abandoned their homes. The fact that they couldn’t practice the religion they wanted, they had orders given to them leading to consequences if not followed just shows what they had to go through over the years. The destruction of how many people converted vs. how many actually had to leave, the fact that these indigenous communities couldn’t really have a say. In which even after that history itself still shows us many other examples of people still having to follow orders; for example, slavery. -Jocelyn Escalante