AwesomeSpanish
This is a blog dedicated to the beautiful Spanish language and the many cultures surrounding it. Here you'll find Spanish music, poems, movie recommendations, daily Spanish lessons, and much, much more!
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A well read notion will never be subject.
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¿Disculpe señor, pero tiene paleta de…?
Breaking through by Jiménez, Francisco
Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.
Parrot in the oven : mi vida by Martinez, Victor
Manny relates his coming of age experiences as a member of a poor Mexican American family in which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone´s struggle.
Esperanza rising by Ryan, Pam Muñoz
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Jesse by Soto, Gary.
Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help them excape their heritage of tedious physical labor.
Juanita fights the school board by Velásquez, Gloria
Johnny, the eldest daughter of Mexican farm workers, is expelled from high school, but with the help of a Latina psychologist and a civil rights attorney, she fights the discriminatory treatment and returns determined to finish school.
BAM
Social inequality is more violent than any protest.
Salvador Allende II
But tomorrow will belong to the people, to the workers. Humanity advances towards the conquest of a better world.
Poster for a 1968 Carnegie Hall convert to benefit California Grape Workers.
BAM
Mexicanfoodporn & the slang of the day
Güey / Wey = Like I have explained before translation of slangs depends on the context
güey means stupid or idiot but also can be used as ‘dude’.
Güey is a “deformation” of the word buey which means ox
Examples:
Ay Güey!! = Holy shit!, Damn
Que güey estás! = Man, you are so stupid!
Que pasó güey? = Hows it going dude/man?
My favorite Spanish slang!
“Miré a ambos lados de la cama mientras las piernas de María se anudaban y desanudaban sobre mi espalda (hubiera querido seguir así hasta morirme). A lo lejos discerní la sombra de la cama de Angélica y la curva de las caderas, como una isla contemplada desde otro isla.”
Stop existing
Start living
