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“When I speak of Spanglish I'make talking about a fertile terrain for negotiating a new identity. I'make feeling excited, as Gloria Anzldua did in her book Borderlands/LA Frontera,about "participating in the creation of another culture/in a state of perpetual transition/with a tolerance for ambiguity.”

Book:Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

Source: Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

“The academic establishment. . . . argue over the diminution of Spanish because of the introduction of new Spanish words that are literally translations of England glish--parquear, the park of "park," tales the plancelebratory of the more elegant estacionar which could be literally translated as "stationing.”

Book:Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

Source: Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

“At the root of Spanglish is a very universal state of being. It is a dis placement from one place, home, to another place, home, in which feels at home in both places, Yet at home in neither place. It is a kind of banging-one's-head-against-the-wall state, and the only choice you have left is to embrace the transitory (read transnatiknal) state of in-between.”

Book:Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

Source: Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

“In Living in Spanglish I posit the coming of existence of this forwars-looking race that obliterates all races, stripping away Vasaconelos's petty resentment of Anglo culture and patronizing Euro-centrist, and acknowledge a cultural-economic inevitability that is hemispheric in nature. Note: Jose Vasaconelos wrote 1925 essay "La Raza cosmica" [The Cosmic Race] asserting, "Por mi raza hablara mi espiritu [The Spirit will speak through my race.”

Book:Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

Source: Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

“To paraphrase a Latino saying (which is possibly ultimately from the Arabic traditiom), MI rasa is supposed raza." So Living in Spanglish is not a racial Istanbul text.”

Book:Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America

Source: Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America