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The woman I interviewed was Teresa Hays, born July 22, 1948 in Pensacola, Florida during the baby boom era. She was an adopted child who grew up in the rural town of Cantonment, Florida. Her adoptive father was a southern, Baptist who valued hard work, faith, and family. Her adoptive mother was an Italian immigrant and

Twenty years after the passing of Selena ,the people of Corpus Christi, Texas speak of her as if she's still alive today, but remember her as if she passed just yesterday. While life has changed in Corpus Christi since Selena was killed on March 31, 1995, it also feels as if it's stopped .In every corner of Corpus Christi’s Hi-Ho Restaurant one of Selena’s favorite hometown restaurants, she’s there. The walls are covered with her signature smile, traced with red lipstick. The one exception is a painting which hangs in middle of the main dining area. The media responded to this surge of grief in unprecedented ways. People magazine not only released a special southwest edition with Selena's death as the cover story, but it also followed up with a tribute issue, only the third such publication in the magazine's history, and continued to reach out to Latino readers with People en Español. During Saldivar's trial, TV Guide published a bilingual edition for the first time in its history, with English and Spanish versions of an article about el juicio de

could you Imagine what it would be like to grow up as a performer in a world that didn’t even except female Tejano singers? Can you imagine how much courage and work it would take to make it to the top? That’s was Selena Quintanilla Perez had to go through. Selena was born in Lake Jackson, Texas on April 6th, 1971 to Abraham and Marcella Quintanilla. Abraham was a shipping clerk for a chemical company and Marcella was a housewife. Abraham being a well respected Mexican musician, who only sang English songs, and had his career ruined because of that. American people didn’t respect him because he was Mexican, and the Mexican people did not respect them because they sang English songs. By the time Selena reached age 10, it became very

Trujillo. She is respected throughout the Dominican Republic. In every aspect of her life, she

Selena Quintanilla was a Mexican-American singer that dramatically impacted the world of Tejano music. “Selena transformed Tejano music from a local genre performed on a circuit of small venues into an international form that expressed the aspirations of many in the latino community,” affirms The Nineties in America. She was born on April 16, 1971 in Lake Jackson, Texas and died on March 31, 1995 in Corpus Christi, Texas. The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture states that, “she [Selena] was widely popular with Latino audiences, especially young women, who looked to her as a role model.” Although, Selena had a short life that did not prevent her from becoming a legend.

Born in Lake Jackson, Texas on April 16, 1971, Selena Quintanilla-Perez would come to be known as the “Queen of Tejano music.” With the help of different sources to provide evidence and support to my argument, the aim of this paper is to examine how Tejana singer, Selena was able to impact those around her with her career as a musician and through the medium of music. Selena rose to success by continuously crossing over to different markets. She not only impacted her fans one by one, but also brought about social and cultural changes by fleshing out tensions between Anglo and Latino communities by bringing people together through music.

Two months before the beginning of the 21st century, Melanie Pillaca-Gutierrez was born in South Florida. She grew up in a sunny suburban community and attended Park Trails Elementary as the only latina in her kindergarten class. At five years old, she was oblivious to the stares she received for the color of her skin or the language she spoke with her parents. Short years after that, she became passionate and vocal against the discrimination and lack of representation her people faced.

Josefina Fierro de Bright, the 1940’s Mexican American activists, is one individual Hispanic who has profoundly impacted American culture. In the 1940’s, Chicana activists Josefina created multiple protests and worked with El Congreso, intending to stop discrimination towards Latinos in California. She devoted her life to stopping discrimination towards Hispanics and other minorities.

Celia Hernandez had a rough start in life, she moved from school to school during her elementary years. Celia went to a whopping 7 elementary schools, but managed fairly well. She grew up on the east side of the Coachella Valley in California, the side that’s only talked about when referring to music festivals, agriculture, or lower education. The east side of the Coachella Valley is majority Hispanic or Latino population, despite her Latino background, Celia wasn’t taught Spanish therefore it was problematic when she started attending a Latino school. She found difficulty with relating to them as there was a vast language barrier between them, furthermore, through the years she broke it and found a place with them. Money was scarce throughout

When she was younger she never knew that there were books about Chicanos. She was never told she could succeed being Spanish. Anzaldua says, “For days I walked around in stunned amazement that a Chicano could write and get published.” (Anzaldua 379.) After learning this she really does her research and she finds out that there is poetry, music and movies all about the Spanish heritage. She talked about how she had pure joy whenever she found new poetry she could read, “ it made me have a sense of belonging” (Anzaldua 379.) Growing up every Thursday night, her and her family would pile up in the car with a cooler full of water and bologna and cheese sandwiches and head to the drive in. Thursday nights the drive in consisted of Spanish related movies, some of them were Nosotros los probes and Cuando los hijos se

Furthermore adding to the fact that they could both help their families. After that, another correlation between these two pieces is that as the story progressed, it was revealed that Jeanne’s parents are immigrants from Hiroshima, Japan that came to give their children a better life in the United States. Then, as mentioned in the podcast, most the Gonzalez family members are illegal undocumented Mexican immigrants, who left everything in Mexico, to offer a better life and opportunities for their children. An additional correlation between the podcast and the book was that both, Jeanne and Abigail were segregated from some places and things they wanted to belong

She was born in Zacatecas, Salazar. Her mother’s was from Culiacan, Jalisco but born in Tlaltenango in March, 21 of 1921 and her father was born in the same place but May 8. 1923. My abuelita told me that they meet in a chucomeca which is like a ranch in Zacatecas. She had 5 siblings which were 3 brothers named Manuel, Patricio, Filiberto and 2 sisters named Victoria and Hermelina. Her childhood was doing domestic labors and chores around the house, she did attend school but only went for 4 to 5 years then dropped out. While she was in school the clothes she had to use was uniforms which as a girl she had to wear a dress. She told me that in her education that they learned how to respect their elders, family members and themselves. Her family also thought her to take advantage of what they had since she came from a poor family and background.

Rosanna Tavarez visited our class to share her experience in the United States from a Hispanic perspective. Ms. Tavarez’s parents are from the Dominican Republic. In their early twenties, they moved to the United States and settled in New York, and spent time in Miami. Ms. Tavarez was born in New York, and lived in a predominately Hispanic neighborhood. Specifically, she described her neighborhood as having the exact characteristics of a neighborhood in the Dominican Republic. For example, you could hear Spanish music and see people outside playing dominoes. In general, Ms. Tavarez spoke positively about her experience growing up in New York with an immigrant family. Yet, she did describe the discrimination her parents faced.

Rebekah Cortes-Rios, an eighteen year old student, was born in Watsonville CA. At the age of five her parents decided to move to Madera in search of a better life. She has three female siblings, two older ones and a younger sibling. She enjoys having animals and looking after them, she has three dogs, two doves and a kitten. In high school she was involved in various clubs and volunteer activities that helped the community of Madera. Some of her hobbies include reading, learning german, dancing bachata and editing home-made videos.

Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost their Accents demonstrates the distinct experiences Dominican men and women face entering a foreign country by challenging their respective ideas of themselves. Numerous times during the novel, Alvarez displays the cultural differences the García family have to adjust to after moving from their home country of the Dominican Republic to the United States. They’ve endured sexual harassment, mental breakdowns and a loss of culture due to their immigration to America. These experiences have effectively altered their lives forever, transforming them into new “selves” that may have never came into fruition had they stayed home in Dominican Republic. Throughout their journeys, the Garcías had started their lives with the potential to become one self -- but encounter experiences in the surrounding culture -- that ultimately change them. As a result, they lose their much of their Dominican heritage trying to assimilate to American culture, but never become truly successful in doing so. Alvarez shows these immigrants, who travel to the United States, are neither American or non-American but borderline in between. They exhibit characteristics of both cultures, and thus, belong in a culture of “selves” that places them directly in the middle.