Adra Maner
Women’s Studies
02/02/2015
For my post I’m focusing on the article ‘A word about the Great Terminology Question’ by Elizabeth Martinez in which she talks about the different terms used by those of Mexican, central american, and south american origin and how it is difficult to use one of the terms as a general titles for all of these various peoples.
` I found it interesting when she mentioned that the term that I commonly seen and heard when I was growing up ‘Hispanic’ was on that was forced first by colonization and then by the government during the Nixon Era (pg. 86) and that there was also the same problem with latino/latina. Then she goes on to mention the term ‘La Raza’ or ‘the people at the end of page 86, I had never heard this term before having grown up in an area in which people would vaguely call anyone mexican if they seemed to be from central/ south america regardless of where they actually came from.
I think things like this are due in large part to ignorance and separation from other races, in rural
southern areas we go to mostly all white schools with the same set of people in our age group all our
lives and are not taught anything about other races or cultures, and the only lessons we get are from
church in which we are told that we should ‘love everyone’ I think until there is greater education for
children regarding racial issues people will always have to worry about the unasked for racial labels
associated with them.
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