Topic: Through his essay “Resignifying Preservation: A Borderlands Response to American Eugenics in Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh's Caballero”, Pablo Ramirez explores the importance of eugenics in Mexican society and how pure blood lines were crucial for marriage in the the time period when the novel takes place. At the same time, he analyzes how Gonzalez and Raleigh try to counterattack the modern views regarding the preservation of race and culture of the time when the novel was written by incorporating the integration of both societies through interrelationships to make a statement of change for integration.
Argument: In his essay, the author shows how the storyline of Caballero is a form of criticism to the ideas of eugenics and keeping …show more content…
Ramirez seems to agree, claiming that the females in the novel speak up for themselves in order to be noticed for other than being a wife and seek their independece, even if it means going against their principles. In the conclusion, Ramirez also cites Eduardo Jose Limon, where he says that although the novel “implies that a marriage of particular and eroticized aspects of Southern and Greater Mexican cultures would produce an ideal, bicultural Southwest of the future” and at the same time, he is saddened by the fact that the novel simply “provides a false hope, for over the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth the new Texas and Southwestern wealth was founded on racial and class exploitation”. Once again, Ramirez agrees with Limon. He believes that although Caballero provides a good representation of the time period and also try to bring awareness about the issues, Gonzalez and Raleigh are not able to fully convince the importance of
Argument: In his essay, the author shows how the storyline of Caballero is a form of criticism to the ideas of eugenics and keeping …show more content…
Ramirez seems to agree, claiming that the females in the novel speak up for themselves in order to be noticed for other than being a wife and seek their independece, even if it means going against their principles. In the conclusion, Ramirez also cites Eduardo Jose Limon, where he says that although the novel “implies that a marriage of particular and eroticized aspects of Southern and Greater Mexican cultures would produce an ideal, bicultural Southwest of the future” and at the same time, he is saddened by the fact that the novel simply “provides a false hope, for over the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth the new Texas and Southwestern wealth was founded on racial and class exploitation”. Once again, Ramirez agrees with Limon. He believes that although Caballero provides a good representation of the time period and also try to bring awareness about the issues, Gonzalez and Raleigh are not able to fully convince the importance of