Juan Felipe Herrera The Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
Page: 155
“Hispanopoly: The upwardly mobile identity game show.”
This quote, as well as the whole entry, reflects a sort of irony. The title calls it an ‘upwardly mobile’ identity game, but it does next to nothing to support the ‘upwards’ movement of the culture it reflects. It shows how many ‘Hispanic and Chicano orientated’ programs do more to put mock then support. In the long run people are undermining their own progress.
Juan Felipe Herrera The Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
Page: 163
"For all hard-core Chicano lawyers who have never admitted to anyone that they are ex-alter boys."
I just really liked this quote. It was interesting because it implied the ‘hardcore Chicano lawyers’ were embarrassed by their heritage. That conflicts with a lot of what is shown earlier in the book. Juan is vary loyal to and proud of his hard past, yet this implies that once you are away frorm you past you must give it up
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