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The short story, “Never Marry a Mexican” from the book “Woman Hollering creek” reimagines Doña Marina as sexually empowered woman who fears anglicanization. In the story “Never marry a Mexican” Clemencia witness culture mixing when her mother marries a white man who she committed several acts of infidelity with while Clemencia father is in the hospital. Motivated by her mother’s Anglicization she assumes a malevolent attitude toward Drew’s wife and engages in an interracial affair with Drew and his son to hurt her. While Clemencia uses her position of power to achieve “a bit of crazy joy “by maiming a divided into Cultural Assimilation through being “able to kill those woman like that, without their knowing” Marina used hers being Cortes’s

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