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4️⃣
4th & final book for my Mexican American Literature class (the 5th book was canceled).
This is an epic poem divided into 5 parts about Villanueva‘s experience, as a boy, watching the movie Giant (1956) and it‘s anti-Mexican racist scene. The racism he witnessed on screen made him feel small and powerless but as he found his voice as a writer and poet he knew he was not—in finding his voice he felt certain of his place and found his power
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