{"id":52596,"date":"2017-03-18T15:02:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T15:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52596"},"modified":"2017-03-18T15:02:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T15:02:53","slug":"on-the-usefulness-of-hispanic-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52596","title":{"rendered":"On the Usefulness of Hispanic Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahachavez.com\/single-post\/2016\/10\/15\/On-the-Use-of-Hispanic-Heritage-Month\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>On the Usefulness of Hispanic Heritage Month<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahachavez.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Mestiza: Living In Between the In Between<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahachavez.com\/single-post\/2016\/10\/15\/On-the-Use-of-Hispanic-Heritage-Month\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sarah A. Chavez<\/strong><\/a>, Visiting Assistant Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahachavez.com\/single-post\/2016\/10\/15\/On-the-Use-of-Hispanic-Heritage-Month\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/a48d0f_0a1f1d0eafa54ee0b8f89d13521b0b28~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_512,h_683,al_c,lg_1,q_80\/a48d0f_0a1f1d0eafa54ee0b8f89d13521b0b28~mv2.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This fine fall day \u2013 and it is a fine fall day: sunny, the leaves are changing and floating softly to the ground in a light breeze, it\u2019s not hot \u2013 is the last day of <a href=\"http:\/\/hispanicheritagemonth.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hispanic Heritage Month<\/a>. I have mixed feelings about Hispanic Heritage Month, the same way I do about <a href=\"http:\/\/womenshistorymonth.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women\u2019s History Month<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">African American History Month<\/a>. If we just lived in a world that held the accomplishments of Latinxs, women, and African Americans in the same esteem as Anglo Americans, and if we had more fair representation in U.S. text books, we wouldn\u2019t need these token months. Largely, months like these end up being used to assuage liberal guilt for the rest of the year when no one is held accountable for the monolithic literature, art, history, sociological perspective teachers assign. These are the special months where a teacher brushes the dust off their copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s<\/a> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Have_a_Dream\" target=\"_blank\">I Have A Dream<\/a>\u201d speech and shows their students art by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diego_Rivera\" target=\"_blank\">Diego Rivera<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frida_Kahlo\" target=\"_blank\">Frida Kahlo<\/a> (even though they are solidly Mexican and therefore not \u201cLatina\/o\u201d or &#8220;Hispanic&#8221;), and talks about how in the 1940s women got to put on pants and tie up their hair in red kerchiefs and that was very empowering&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahachavez.com\/single-post\/2016\/10\/15\/On-the-Use-of-Hispanic-Heritage-Month\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fine fall day \u2013 and it is a fine fall day: sunny, the leaves are changing and floating softly to the ground in a light breeze, it\u2019s not hot \u2013 is the last day of Hispanic Heritage Month. I have mixed feelings about Hispanic Heritage Month, the same way I do about Women\u2019s History Month, and African American History Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,14646,8,20],"tags":[26538,26539,23748,23749],"class_list":["post-52596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-american-mestiza-living-in-between-the-in-between","tag-hispanic-heritage-month","tag-sarah-a-chavez","tag-sarah-chavez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52600,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52596\/revisions\/52600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}