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Preguntas para Sr. Vilson **Sr. Vilson es un profesor y activista de Nueva York con raices haitianos y dominicanos.** **Tiene [|un blog muy popular] y es uno de los autores del libro //[|Teaching 2030]//.**
 * [[image:vilson.jpg width="560" height="362"]] || Posts de Sr. Vilson:

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 * [|My Race: Defining the Undefinable]

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 * And Who Doesn't Want to be Latino?

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 * After Notes from the AfroLatino Immigration Discussion

=Comentarios de Sr. Vilson:=
 * U, Black Maybe ||

de **U, Black Maybe**
// "When people ask me for my background, I tell them “Dominican-Haitian, or Black will do” because that’s what the question entails, but sometimes I wish “Planet Earth” sufficed." //

// "Then, I look at my experiences as a Dominican-Haitian-American, and realize that as many obstacles and tribulations I’ve had, they eventually made me who I am, and I love that person." //

====de **After Notes from the AfroLatino Immigration Discussion** ==== // "Honestly, people don’t know how to act when I reveal my ethnic make-up, and that works two ways: I have an identity I’ve self-developed and people have their own perceptions of what I am." //

// "Definitions of what it means to be part of a race change vastly depending on place and time. For instance, Jews and Italians weren’t even considered to be White until decades after coming into this country. In the same way, Blacks and Latinos don’t just have one ideology, one perspective, or one religion. There are certain trends and connections amongst many of these groups, but we don’t all have the same interests at heart, either." //

// "Sammy Sosa, David Ortiz, and Manny Ramirez, men who in this country, most would identify as Black men, but when asked, they identify as Dominicans … strictly. " //

====de **And Who Doesn't Want to Be Latino?** ==== //"As often as I claim “Latino,” I’ve come to accept that being Latino is equally as much about what I think as what others may think." //

de **My Race: Defining the Undefinable haaaaah** // "I self-identify racially as a Black Latino. I’ve found it’s probably the most appropriate title for this idiosyncratic, deeply political experience I carry." //

// "I understand the skin I’m in limits what others might consider me in their eugenics charts, but my experience growing up around all types of brown hues in my family and all of them “Dominican” leads me to believe I don’t fully have the Black experience here in the States." //

//"1) Around my Dominican family, I’m Dominican. I dance merengue, speak a modified Spanish, and eat rice and beans with some major meat (chicken, beef, or pork, in that order). Unless …// //2) I’m in Dominican Republic. Then, I’m obviously not full Dominican. I’m either// gringo //, Dominican-American, or Dominican-American-Haitian, or something that’s not pure Dominican."// //"Around my Asian friends, my Mexican friends, or any other friends who I haven’t mentioned, I’m just Jose. People bring their own thoughts and prejudices to the table, so I counterbalance with whatever I feel is appropriate."//

// "I think anyone who fully feels the pull of two races inevitably goes through the phases of denial, anger, rage, settling, blending, and eventually, enlightenment." //

// "I understand it’s a social construct, but it doesn’t make it any less real. It’s inextricably tied to the culture here. I don’t know how to define Black or Latino for anyone, but I know the things I’ve felt and done in my lifetime fit best with these titles. I’m still a writer, a thinker, a lover, a friend, a brother, a son, a poet, a speaker, a teacher, a man to someone out there. It’s these experiences that affect the rest of those titles, and how I approach them." //