Elenamary

With my constant changing of the blog design I have lost all my entries and posts from the end of 2004 on. As such I’ve also lost my page that listed my reviews of Blogtitlan sites and links to their sites. Here is a rough start with the ‘A’s. As I improve the site keep checking back to my Blogtitlan page for the most up to date Blogtitlan, also if you want to know what I read there is always my public bloglines.

My definition of Blogtitlan:

A community of bloggers of different backgrounds brought together by their interest in Latino identity in the United States. The blogs are not just political, not just personal, and the people that read them form the community that may have started reading for the intellectual stimulation but stayed for the warm coffee too.

The A’s of Blogtitlan. (if you want me to change a definition please let me know or if I forgot someone please let me know)

Ana Castillo: Official Blog of Ana Castillo - poet/novelist/artist/essayist

Angry People of Color, Inc.

The Art of Brownsville: A blog about art and life in Brownsville, Texas and the Rio Grande Valley/Tamaulipas, Mexico Frontera.

ART-Late Czechia: Diary of a Colombiana Americana that lived in Prague

Author’s Diary: Raul Ramos y Sanchez News and views from the author of America Libre.

Autumnoval: El trayecto acabó, el conductor paró el taximetro y,…me hizo a quedarme a acabar de oir otra canción en la que Morente añoraba a la mujer que había dejado en su tierra natal y que lloraba como la lluvia… Igual sigo desconcertado

Day before yesterday I was on amazon.com trying to get to my wishlist and I typed in my handle “elenamary” into the amazon search engine and up popped this book: The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English. I was shocked they had used The Daily Texican’s word of the day Naco, and the conversation that ensued over disagreements on the definition.

When I saw that this dictionary had published a random comment I’d left on a blog I was excited. History really is made by those who write it down. Who am I to define anything? Yet, I was still excited and forwarded it to a close friend. A friend who lovingly calls me his Cracka’ ass Cracka’ or his Consuela. He teases me for being white and being Mexican. I found his response to my definition of Naco quite funny:

Haha, a pocha is setting the definition for naco. That’s like an upper arligtonian white chick being quoted for the definition of niggerish. LMAO

While he is joking he is also kind of right. People will look back and say we see the term “Naco” documented on a website back in 2004. Who are we to be defining Naco? Are we the ones that now manipulate mainstream Chicano studies and identity solely because we have access to the internet?