Denver Law Review Volume 78 Issue 4 Latcrit V Symposium - Class in LatCrit: Theory and Praxis in a World of Economic Article 11 Inequality December 2020 On Becoming the Other: Cubans, Castro, and Elian - A LatCritical Analysis Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/dlr Recommended Citation Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol, On Becoming the Other: Cubans, Castro, and Elian - A LatCritical Analysis, 78 Denv. U. L. Rev. 687 (2001). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ DU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Denver Law Review by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ DU. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. ON BECOMING THE OTHER: CUBANS, CASTRO, AND ELIAN -- A LATCRITICAL ANALYSIS BERTA ESPERANZA HERNANDEZ-TRUYOL* I. INTRODUCTION: THE DREAM-CUBANS' ARRIVAL IN THE UNITED STATES The course traveled towards becoming an "other" is necessarily cul- turally relative, sometimes individualized, and always complex. Finding out who we are, where we belong - or as Paula Gunn Allen articulates it, the journey to ascertain "who is my mother?" - is an arduous task. The "othering" path depends on our original location. The journey will differ if we are born into a designated minority within the majority culture or if we are born into a majority culture that becomes a minority when its members migrate across culturally, linguistically, racially, and/or ethni- cally identified geographic borders. The discovery of "othering" is an experience that varies greatly not only among individuals but also among groups; it differs in time and space.