Different Types Of African-American Culture

What was your culture 30 years ago? Was it the same or did it change over time? Anzaldua described her community to be a Hispanic one. Adults judged her on how she talked spanish and she felt left out. Wideman described his community to be an African-American one where you grew up in a tough neighborhood. In his neighborhood doing something bad meant good.. For example, a person making money to feed his family by selling drugs or doing other illegal activities. Me and Jennifer’s discourse community is a Hispanic community. Both Wideman’s and Anzaldua's stories were written around the year 1980. Also, Anzaldua, Wideman and Jennifer and I all have similarities between our communities, despite the different types of community were all in. 30 years
Which means that our parents were born outside of the United States and we were born within the United States. Wideman states, “ What else can they do, John? Sometimes I can’t blame them. No jobs, no money in their pockets. How they supposed to feel like men? Garth did better than most.” I believe that Wideman meant that his neighborhood was hard to get anywhere or out of that situation so people couldn’t live their lives to the “Fullest”. Jennifer described her culture to be Ghetto, Hispanic, and religious. Our community could also be described as a Ghetto community. Ghetto means that our community has the appearance of not being maintained. For example, the streets would have potholes; the sidewalk are straight and has cement blocks coming out of it; and also plants and gardens are ruined. It could also mean that there’s a lot of bad activities around the neighborhood. For instance, there’s lots of police activity and gang violence around the neighborhood. We’ve experienced so much of these types of activities, that we’ve grown accustomed to it. I would also describe Wideman’s Community to be a Ghetto community. These communities could relate to each other in that aspect, but the way I see it is that you have to take care of one another in your community to make it
If it’s her parents she would speak to them in a Spanish and respectful tone. If it’s her siblings she would talk in English and at time she would talk in Spanish. She would be more open and comfortable talking to her siblings compared to her parents. She would also talk in a “Code” with her sisters to exclude anyone that doesn’t know this code. Jennifer and her siblings made this code so that her parents wouldn’t know what they are talking about. The code that I use within the community would be a “Gaming” code. Only people that play a certain game would know this code and I use it with my friends all the time. For example me and my friends would be talking and if one of us does something wrong we would call someone a “Noob”. Jennifer also mentioned that when her parents disagreed with her going out somewhere or they felt that it was too late to go out, her parents would try to convince her out of it and maybe even trying to scare her to not going. For instance, my parents would say that “El CuCuy” was going to get me for watching tv late at night or just staying up past my bedtime. Anzaldua herself writes, “ Don’t go to the outhouse at night, Prieta, my mother would say. No se te vaya a meter algo por allá. A snake will crawl into your nalgas, make you pregnant……….”. Anzaldua’s mom is a clear representation that this type of language between the hispanic community existed in