Raymond Adams
While reading this chapter, I initially tried to answer the questions, "who is Raymond?" In a lot of these article readings, I like to begin with thinking about how the individual identifies. This is also one of the ways that the writers start off their writings. I think that introducing yourself and explaining who you are as an individual with your race, ethnicity, lanuguage, culture, economic status, geographical status, gender, and sexuality is a strong start to a paper. For me, it is important to understand how the writer identifies, so that I am able to understand some of their pains and privellages to a different level.
In Raymond's writing, he explains that he is an individual who is living in Louisiana and is surrounded with a variety of language. Raymond describes himself as Louisiana Francophone meaning he speaks French and English and he states that he identifies as a Louisiana creole of color.
Within this lesson we learned some new vocabulary and I was able to reflect on past knowledge that tI had. I learned that creole means that an individual has a variety of lanuguage, culutral, or ethnical backgrounds. This makes sense for Raymond's case because he is an individual who speaks French and is surrounded by English speakers. I also was able to reflect on past knowledge to think about African diaspora.
Freshman year at ISU, I took an African Art course and learned a lot about diaspora within art and I especially learned a lot about African diaspora. In summation, I would consider African diaspora to be a community or a group of individuals that is of African descent or their cultural background can trace them back to being of African descent.
I was also able to think about this in terms of first generation immigrants and second generation immigrants, which we have read within this story.
Overall, as I read through Raymond's story I was able to understand his hardships while living in Louisiana.
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