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Through These Words, I Rise

March 14, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

In order to rescatar mi lengua (rescue my language) from an anti-Spanish childhood (my white father had ordered Mamá not to speak to me in her native

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El Testimonio, capítulo 1: El Nacimiento del Pocho

February 27, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

¡El primer podcast en español! (But, like any Salvadoran party, everyone is welcome)  Aquí hablo de la vida del pocho–que significa, una fruta podrida, y

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Gracias, México, for Saving My Salvadoran Soul

February 8, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

Once my Uncle Paco–the pain-in-the-ass Salvadoran revolutionary in exile in Mexico–saw how much books meant to me, he backed off. After I shook the novel

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The Rules of Racism: You Can Only Speak One Language (and it damn well better be English)

February 6, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

In class, I teach how creative writing can rouse memory, strong emotions, sharp images, and that, if a student keeps writing, she will surprise herself

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Learning Spanish? Fear Not the Subjunctive!

February 3, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

When I threw myself into Central America, after having lived a monolingual childhood in Tennessee, I attacked the subjunctive. It’s the conjugation that twists up

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Escaping the Monolingual Cage of America

February 1, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

According to the above photo, I’d been out drinking the night before. I don’t know what my first Spanish word was, but I do recall

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