A Houston news anchor came under fire by her viewers for saying “Buenos Dias” on-air during a Sunday morning newscast.
Mayra Moreno, an anchor at the ABC affiliate KTRK in Houston, said that her station received a number of complaints saying that her use of Spanish “was uncalled for and un-American, especially on Memorial Weekend when we are supposed to honor those who died serving our country.”
In response, Moreno – who on Twitter identifies herself as a “Latina blessed to be a TV anchor/reporter in her hometown” – went on social media to call out her critics.
Feminism, Nation and Myth explores the scholarship of La Malinche, the indigenous woman who is said to have led Cortés and his troops to the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán. The figure of La Malinche has generated intense debate among literature and cultural studies scholars. Drawing from the humanities and the social sciences, feminist studies, queer studies, Chicana/o studies, and Latina/o studies, critics and theorists in this volume analyze the interaction and interdependence of race, class, and gender. Studies of La Malinche demand that scholars disassemble and reconstruct concepts of nation, community, agency, subjectivity, and social activism.
Contributors include Alfred Arteaga, Antonia Castañeda, Debra Castillo, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Deena González, María Herrera Sobek, Guisela Latorre, Luis Leal, Sandra Messinger Cypess, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Amanda Nolacea Harris, Rolando J. Romero, and Tere Romo. These academic essays are complemented by the creative work of Alicia Gaspar de Alba and José Emilio Pacheco, both of whom evoke the figure of La Malinche in their work.
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