Honduras
Honduras, Latin America, The Americas, United States, PanamáAlejandra MejíaHonduras, Panamá, family, mother, brother, Panama Canal, migration, American Dream, racialized, DACAmented, markers of success, immigrant guilt, U.S. cultural imperialism

1.5 Gen Testimonios: How my Migrant Identity Informs my Politics | Alejandra Mejía

“Our story of migration is like that of many working-class Latin American immigrants: motivated by the search for better opportunities and, ultimately, for survival in countries where U.S. intervention and global asymmetrical power dynamics dating back to colonization have left limited options for people. Direct U.S. involvement in Panamá, where I lived from ages 3-11, can be traced back to the nineteenth century when what is now Panamá was a province of Colombia.“

Honduras, Latin America, The Americas, United States, PanamáAlejandra MejíaHonduras, Panamá, family, mother, brother, Panama Canal, migration, American Dream, racialized, DACAmented, markers of success, immigrant guilt, U.S. cultural imperialism
1.5 Gen Testimonios: How my Migrant Identity Informs my Politics | Alejandra Mejía
Honduras, Latin America, The Americas, United StatesJonathon Burne-EspinozaHonduras, united states, US cultural imperialism, Afro-HondureñaComment

In the Presence of Absence | Jonathon Burne-Espinoza

“Another thread, and the one that I feel most acutely: U.S. cultural imperialism has robbed us both of our cultural identities. The visceral awareness of lacking, the presence of absence (a phrase borrowed from the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish) which transcends time and space, spans across peoples who have had their lands, communities, bodies, and spirits stolen, commodified, and repackaged back to them disfigured in the rhetoric of diversity, humanitarianism, and progress.”

Honduras, Latin America, The Americas, United StatesJonathon Burne-EspinozaHonduras, united states, US cultural imperialism, Afro-HondureñaComment
In the Presence of Absence | Jonathon Burne-Espinoza