Summary
In his article "Memoria Is a Friend of Ours: On the Discourses of Color" Victor Villanueva attempts to explain to the reader the concept of memoria, based on the Greek "pathos, logos, and ethos" to describe an author's background and thus their identity as well. He does this by explaining colonial discourse, which describes the differences between race and the difficulties that are associated with it.
Synthesis
This article definitely relates to the discourse community articles that we have been reading. However, it seems like this one goes a little deeper into the subject by pulling the aspect of race into the discourse community as an issue, rather than just explaining what a discourse community is.
Personal Response
I thought this article was interesting in the way that discourse community was applied to a real life situation and not just something that is only spoken about and relevant in a college classroom setting.
QD#7
Villanueva's primary discourse was his personal home life while his second discourse was his professional career life. I think that this makes it seem much more complex than Gee accounted for because Villanueva's discourse had more to do with memories, race and his personal experiences than the concepts set by Gee.
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