Summary Of The Virgin Of El Barrio By Kristy Nabhan-Warren

The Lady of Guadalupe is a huge part of the Mexican tradition, and how many people look up to her in a very godly way. She is important, because she reminds people of their appreciation for their own cultures, along with the other cultures that are all over the world. The Lady of Guadalupe is someone that is the exact replica of the Virgin Mary. But, the only difference is, is that the Virgin Mary is a saint that is represented in the European culture, and the Lady of Guadalupe in the Aztec and Native culture of Mexico. The lady of Guadalupe is a positive influence on different religions, especially Christianity.

Inequalities within minorities is not limited to economic unfairness but also social inequity. The second story that shows how inequality within minorities is “The Myth of the Latin Woman” by Judith Ortiz Cofer. “The Myth of the Latin Woman” is an essay based on the real life experiences of Judith Ortiz Cofer. The story talks about the racist inequalities she has went through as a women of Hispanic descent. “a young man, obviously fresh from a pub, spotted me and as if struck by inspiration went down on his knees in the aisle. With both hands over his hearts he broke into an an Irish tenor’s rendition of Maria from West Side Story”. The author retells one of her experiences from earing graduate credits one summer and she is met by someone whom ignorantly makes racists remark simply because she is Latina. Furthermore in the story Cofer mentions how people gave the man a round of applause. “amused fellow passengers gave his voice the round of gentle applause” (Page 61). This shows that it is acceptable to generalize an ethnic group into a character from West Side Story. In addition to the unfair generalization, Cofer is confronted unfair expectations. I thought you Latin girls were supposed to mature early”. This is unfair assumption made to Cofer. She is treated like a vegetable rather than a girl who traditionally grows into womanhood. This also generalizes Latin women to be matured at a young age. Which is incorrect just because Latinas fall into a small category in society

A life in the city of Seguin, Texas was not as easy as Cleofilas, the protagonist of the story thought it would be. The author, Cisneros describes the life women went through as a Latino wife through Cleofilas. Luckily, Cisneros is a Mexican-American herself and had provided the opportunity to see what life is like from two window of the different cultures. Also, it allowed her to write the story from a woman’s point of view, painting a vision of the types of problems many women went through as a Latino housewife. This allows readers to analyze the characters and events using a feminist critical view. In the short story “Women Hollering Creek” Sandra Cineros portrays the theme of expectation versus reality not only through cleofilas’s thoughts but also through her marriage and television in order to display how the hardship of women in a patriarchal society can destroy a woman’s life.

The story illustrates the overlapping influences of women’s status and roles in Mexican culture, and the social institutions of family, religion, economics, education, and politics. In addition, issues of physical and mental/emotional health, social deviance and crime, and social and personal identity are

Once upon a time Sister Angeles was given a dire diagnosis of a short life, but on Feb. 2 of this year she celebrated 60 years of living a consecrated life. She was surrounded by her sisters from Mount Thabor Convent, friends from Our Lady of Guadalupe and Nuestra Senora de San Juan de Los Lagos, Madre de la Iglesia

Aurora Levins Morales’s poem, “Childs of America” tackles the complex issue of social diversity in the United States, a country made up of immigrants. Specially, it explores an American with a family tree that reaches all around the world.

Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories depict the hardships that Mexican Americans face because of their complicated identity. In the story “Little Miracles, Kept Promises,” Chayo’s letter to the Virgin of Guadalupe illustrates the pressures placed on Mexican American women in a patriarchal society. Mexican American women are expected to conform to the role of being obedient, however Chayo illustrates the struggles she faces when she deviates from the customs enforced on her. Chayo’s experiences are common to Mexican American women; the obstacles that women encounter such as attaining sovereignty in their community is explained in Gloria Anzaldua’s “Borderland’s/La Frontera.” While Chayo resists conforming to her culture’s beliefs she grows to embrace her Mexican heritage once she begins to view it from a new and liberating perspective.

In Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s novel, Desert Blood, religion is a dominant element throughout the unravelling of a mystery in the border towns of Juárez, Mexico and El Paso, United States. From specific characters to the general culture of the areas described, the pervasiveness of the influence of religion becomes prominent to the reader. The ways in which it is dispersed through the novel are complex and diverse; however, they all come together to give the reader a need of a dissociation of traditional theology from the modern woman. This is accomplished through Alba’s use of conflict between the modernistic Ivon’s beliefs and other traditional characters’, and through the reoccurring theme of acts of evil being close to symbols of religion. Two characters that embody the traditionalist side of religion are Ivon’s mother, Lydia, and Father Francis, a local priest.

It does not matter where people come from, where they live, or their race they will always be judged by others causing someone with pride to feel shame. There are many occasions in which people feel desperation because they don't like where they come from. Others judge them because of their origin. Some people do not care what others say, they love their native community and will not leave their living area because they feel they belong there. In “Invasion” by Benjamin Percy he shows his anger towards others that come to his native town in Bend, Oregon because he feels some sort of invasion causing his town to become transformed by others. In “The Barrio” by Robert Ramirez he describes his barrio colorful meaning every house has it's own

Have you ever read El Tonto del Barrio’s story? It is about Romero Estrado, and he lived in the Golden Heights. Romero was called “El Cotorro” because he was always whistling and singing. He was singing on the street every day, but he did not bather any one. In this story, people treat Romero by good things before he worked, and after he worked people got upset with him for many reasons. Actually Romero was happier and people liked him more before Seferino paid him.

Both Richardson and Rosaldo both take a different approach on research, familiar in their fresh new approaches, in inventive methods. Richardson using a closely related topic, his own religion of Southern Baptist, against a foreign religion. While Rosaldo engulfed himself in a completely different culture, researching the traditional taboo activities. Both developing new methods of writing and researching cultures, these two specifically focusing on rituals, different than done before. Realizing and exposing their own biases and experiences, expressed thought their writing on these subjects, a new form of anthropology research.

On May 13, 1917, nine-year old Lucia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto reported seeing a woman “brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal goblet filled with the most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun.” This lady was the Virgin Mary, who told them to return on the thirteenth of every month. During these monthly apparitions, Mary told the children that praying the

Against freemasonry, the Blessed Virgin Mary spoke in an official approved devotion from the 17th century, Quito, Ecuador, when she appeared as Our Lady of Good Success to Mother Mariana de Jesus Torresto. Also involved, is a miraculous statue now having had a canonical coronation. Deemed worthy of reading are the messages. Her cause for beatification began in 1986. Her body now lies incorrupt.

Awareness of writing choices generates an appreciation of the reflexivity of ethnographic research. Reflexivity involves the recognition that an account of reality does not simply mirror reality but rather creates or constitutes as real in the first place whatever it describes. Thus ‘the notion of reflexivity recognizes that texts do not simply and transparently report an independent order of reality. Rather, the texts themselves are implicated in the work of reality-construction (Emerson et. al., 1995:213).

     The current debate concerning the validation and reporting of ethnographic material generally takes the form rejection of all theoretical paradigms (Lyotard 1984), the deconstruction of texts (Derrida 1976), the removal of the authorial voice and sobriety in style (Marcus and Fisher 1986). Counterpoised to the postmodernists are the traditionalists, such as Geertz, who assert that ethnographic legitimacy is concomitant with the authors narrative ability and rejects