{"id":27215,"date":"2020-01-04T19:56:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T01:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27215"},"modified":"2020-01-04T19:56:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T01:56:39","slug":"word-of-the-day-528","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/04\/word-of-the-day-528\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Nepantla<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The term,\u00a0<i>Nepantla<\/i>\u00a0is a Nahuatl (Aztec language) term connoting\u00a0<i>in between<\/i>\u00a0or a reference to the space of\u00a0<i>the middle<\/i>. A number of contemporary scholars, writers, poets and artists have elaborated upon this concept, enhancing and\/or adding on to the Nahua concept. (See Gloria Anzaldua, Pat Mora, Yreina Cervantez, Miguel Leon Portilla).<\/p>\n<p>Most often the term is referencing endangered peoples, cultures, and\/or gender, who due to invasion\/conquest\/marginalization or forced acculturation, engage in resistance strategies of survival. In this sense, this larger, cultural space of\u00a0<i>Nepantla<\/i>\u00a0becomes a postmodern paradigm or consciousness rooted in the creation of a\u00a0<i>new middle<\/i>. <em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicanoart.org\/nepantla.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ChicanoArt.org<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepantla: The term,\u00a0Nepantla\u00a0is a Nahuatl (Aztec language) term connoting\u00a0in between\u00a0or a reference to the space of\u00a0the middle. A number of contemporary scholars, writers, poets and artists have elaborated upon this concept, enhancing and\/or adding on to the Nahua concept. (See Gloria Anzaldua, Pat Mora, Yreina Cervantez, Miguel Leon Portilla). Most \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/04\/word-of-the-day-528\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27216,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27215\/revisions\/27216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}