American Studies · Cultural Analysis
Between Borders
Latinx Identity, Home & Belonging
A collection of historical, cinematic, literary, and personal essays examining how migration, colonial history, family, and cultural expectations shape identity across the Americas. Together, the works approach home not simply as a place, but as something constructed through memory, community, struggle, and belonging.
- Three selected essays
- 2024
History · Personal Narrative
Ni De Aquí, Ni De Allá
Neither From Here, Nor There
A historical and personal examination of colonial extraction, racial capitalism, labor inequality, and resistance across the Americas. The essay connects these histories to the experience of growing up Argentine-American and searching for belonging between two national and cultural identities.
Colonialism · Labor · Resistance · Argentine-American identity
Read essayFilm & Literary Analysis
Kinship and Authenticity
Family, Culture, and Belonging Across Film and Literature
Paired analyses of Roma, A Better Life, and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. The work examines how kinship can be inherited or constructed and how class, migration, gender, and cultural expectations complicate the search for an authentic identity.
Kinship: More Than Blood
A comparative film analysis of how Roma and A Better Life depict biological family, chosen family, economic inequality, and the threat of separation.
Read the analysisAuthenticity
A literary analysis of how Julia Reyes negotiates family expectations, gender roles, language, and cultural identity in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.
Kinship · Film criticism · Authenticity · Family
Read the analysesAcross these essays, I examine home not as a fixed place, but as something constructed through family, memory, migration, and collective experience.
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