Summary Of Child Of The Americas

The poem called, “Child of the Americas” by Aurora Levins Morales is a poem where she talks about how her life growing up has been since she is a Puerto Rican born and raised in the ghettos of New York. This poem can relate to a lot of people because of the diversity that has increased in this country. Morales speaks about her life in a way that can relate to other people in the way they see themselves. She is an American who has a mixture of different heritages and how they are part of her identity.
In the poem of Levins, she says, “I am child of the Americas A light-skinned mestiza of the Caribbean A child of many diaspora, born into this continent at crossroads”. The writer Lee Custodio from the article, “An Analysis on the Poem ‘Child of the Americas’ by Aurora Levins Morales” she mentions how this means that the Levins sees herself “as a descendent of an immigrant or an immigrant herself” and that she finds herself to be very special and unique because of her different kinds of ethnicities she has in her bloodline. Levins by …show more content…
For example, in her poem she says “I am not African. Africa is in me, but I cannot return. I am not taína (Name eines Indianerstammes). Taíno is in me, but there is no way back. I am not European. Europe lives in me, but I have no home there.” She is using this metaphor as evidence that here in America everyone has a different culture and that’s what makes them a country. By mentioning about the Europeans she is saying how they were one of the first settlers in the Americas and how they came here looking for freedom of their own difficulties and problems from their former country. When Levins mentions about the being ‘African’ she means it by how many Americans ancestors are Africans who were brought to Americas as slaves. She is saying how they were “forced” to become Americans but eventually were freed and recognized as