Us/Nostros

The article Home/ Not Home: Centering American Studies Where We Are has given me a new awareness of defining home. Warrior invokes the concept that home becomes where we are located, to my understanding community is built through common locations and work. La India Maria, a fictional character that approached many relevant discourses with a sense of humor, once said “Ni de aqui ni de alla”(not from here or there). Here saying seems relevant because she faces this checkerboard identity but the city she lives in becomes her home. Similar to Warrior’s brother wanting his ashes spread where he felt home and where he has roots.

by Krystal A.