Guest Blogger on Academia de Cruz

Andy Besa de Tejas Talks Mistaken Identity

Check out the recent Guest Blogger on my Academia de Cruz blog:
http://writerscholarprofessional.blogspot.com/2011/03/presenting-guest-blogger-andy-besa.html

Writer Andy Besa discusses how mestizaje makes him a target of microaggressions.  When Polynesians aren't sure of his ethnicity, they welcome him. When Anglos think he's native American, he's made to feel as though he's lacking if he doesn't fulfill their desire to interact with an 'other.'

(Besa and Walter Mignolo at New Directions Conference 2010)