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Literary Event with Gustavo Arellano

MACLA

November 4, 2009

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Gustavo Arellano's popular Orange County Weekly column "Ask a Mexican!" is now widely syndicated and excerpts are gathered in an acerbic book by the same name. He answers serious, curious and sometimes hateful but mostly irreverent questions about Mexicans. This book compiles what are presumably the best question-and-answer exchanges over the past two years, under topics including language, sex, immigration and food. Arellano wittily defuses bigotry and mocks stereotypes with his often well-reserarched replies. The author's relentless irony and reclamation of derogatory terms is not for the faint of heart, but this approach is a welcome reprieve from common tiptoeing around the fraught subjects of race relations and immigration.

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  Dates:
  November 4, 2009

  Times:
  7pm

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  MACLA

  510 S. 1st Street San Jose, CA 95113

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  • Event Name: San Jose Poetry Slam
    "I can't wait to experience it!"
    Comment posted by: Tavius Dyer from San Ramon, CA, May 21, 2009
    

    I am a spoken word artist who has never slammed. I saw the movie, though. I've never been. I hope to come down soon and rep the scene!

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    I am a spoken word artist who has never slammed. I saw the movie, though. I've never been. I hope to come down soon and rep the scene!

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  • Event Name: Who Does She Think She Is? - Documentary Film Screening
    "Documentary in English"
    Comment posted by: Alejandra from CA, Mar 18, 2009
    

    This documentary is in English. Sorry, no Spanish subtitles for the version we will be screening this coming Saturday at MACLA.

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    This documentary is in English. Sorry, no Spanish subtitles for the version we will be screening this coming Saturday at MACLA.

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  • Event Name: Junot Diaz Reading and Book Signing
    "brief life of oscar"
    Comment posted by: patty from CA, USA, Sep 08, 2008
    

    The best book I ever read that I didn't understand.

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    The best book I ever read that I didn't understand.

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  • Event Name: The Ghost Riders
    "Travelling The Trail of Tears"
    Comment posted by: Peter Moeau, Rongowhakaata tribe, great-great-greatgrandson of Te Kooti Rikirangi from Te Karaka (4022) Aotearoa NZ, Sep 16, 2007
    

    Nga mihi aroha no nga iwi maori o Aotearoa. E te rangatira, e te kairaranga purakau, e te hoa, tena koe! Vincent - I was privileged enough to see your work, and to meet you in Wairoa, Aotearoa NZ... Expand

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    Nga mihi aroha no nga iwi maori o Aotearoa. E te rangatira, e te kairaranga purakau, e te hoa, tena koe! Vincent - I was privileged enough to see your work, and to meet you in Wairoa, Aotearoa NZ a number of years ago at the Inaugural Indigenous Film Festival. Thank you for such a powerful statement. I had to stand and acknowledge the deep-felt emotion that your work invoked in me. This was the right way for me to talk to you, brother to brother, through whaikorero. As well, seeing Ron His Horse is Thunder reminded me of the healing powers of the descendants of those who suffered way back then. He reminded me of how men of today need to talk to the men of tomorrow and teach them the ways of the old people. He embodied the spirit of his tipuna, Sitting Bull. My aroha goes to you both, and to our tipuna who have already walked their trail of tears. Collapse

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