#TeaGlobally: Marco Avilés' "I Am Not Your Cholo"

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Re-imagining Migration and Words Without Borders invite you to our latest #TeaGlobally event, Wednesday June 3rd at 5 pm Eastern. (If that time doesn&#x27;t work for you, <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunchglobally-5-writing-about-immigration-race-with-marco-aviles-tickets-106683836226" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">click here</a>.) We&#x27;ll be reading &quot;<a href="https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/november-2017-new-us-writing-i-am-not-your-cholo-marco-aviles-sophie-hughes" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">I Am Not Your Cholo,</a>&quot; a personal essay from journalist Marco Avilés, who moved to the U.S. from Peru several years ago. In it, Avilés shares his personal history of growing up with brown skin in a racially divided country, the sense of recognition he felt while watching the James Baldwin documentary &quot;I Am Not Your Negro,&quot; and his efforts to communicate his experiences to the U.S.-born, mostly white audiences he encounters in his new home of Maine. The essay was translated from Spanish by Sophie Hughes and is available <a href="https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/bilingual/november-2017-new-us-writing-i-am-not-your-cholo-marco-aviles-sophie-hughes" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">bilingually</a>. (It was also published as a part of a longer Spanish-language<a href="https://www.amazon.com/No-soy-tu-cholo-Spanish-ebook/dp/B0754K68PR" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> book</a> with the same title -- see below.) So that we can have a substantial conversation, we ask that people read the<a href="http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/november-2017-new-us-writing-i-am-not-your-cholo-marco-aviles-sophie-hughes" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> essay</a> -- or at least the <a href="https://www.wwb-campus.org/blog/2017/in-the-magazine-i-am-not-your-cholo" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">blog post</a> about it -- before we meet. <ul><li>Spread the word: <a href="https://bit.ly/3gpNCWk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://bit.ly/3gpNCWk</a></li><li>Read the blog post and essay: <a href="https://bit.ly/3gmn5cM" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://bit.ly/3gmn5cM</a></li></ul>Questions? Write to nadia@wordswithoutborders.org. P.S. This will be our last session of this school year, but check your inbox this August! In the meantime, we&#x27;ll be posting <a href="https://www.wwb-campus.org/blog/2020/q-a-with-manga-translator-jocelyne-allen" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">lists</a> to help you plan for the fall (or for your own reading) on the <a href="https://www.wwb-campus.org/blog/2020/q-a-with-manga-translator-jocelyne-allen" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">WWB Campus blog</a>.

<h3>Explaining a racially-loaded term</h3>What does cholo mean? Here is how Avilés explains the term to a high school class in Maine: A cholo in Peru, I told them, is like a Latino in the US: someone with dark skin who has come from far away, from the south, from the mountains.Read more: <a href="https://bit.ly/3gmn5cM" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://bit.ly/3gmn5cM</a>

<h3> Where We Come From </h3> Avilés' essay ends with these inspiring lines: <blockquote>We cholos, Latinos, and immigrants have come a long way and carry a complex history with us. The story of where we come from isn’t our disadvantage, as we’re told, and as we tell ourselves. On the contrary, it is our strength.</blockquote>Read more: <a href="https://bit.ly/3gmn5cM" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://bit.ly/3gmn5cM</a>Spread the word: <a href="https://bit.ly/3gpNCWk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://bit.ly/3gpNCWk</a>

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