Julio de Burgos is a Puerto Rican poet who lived and died in Spanish Harlem. Growing up, Julio, Sapo, and Blanca’s school is named after Julia de Burgos. Despite this, a racist English teacher named Mr. Blessington dismisses de Burgos’s poems as “obscure” and refuses to teach her poetry because he’s prejudiced against Latinx people. Quiñonez uses Mr. Blessington’s attitude to expose the disheartening oppression that Latinx children typically experience in school.
Julia de Burgos Quotes in Bodega Dreams
The Bodega Dreams quotes below are all either spoken by Julia de Burgos or refer to Julia de Burgos . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 2, Round 1
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Julia-day-Burgos is so obscure it would be hard to find a single poem of hers. In any language.
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Julia de Burgos Quotes in Bodega Dreams
The Bodega Dreams quotes below are all either spoken by Julia de Burgos or refer to Julia de Burgos . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Book 2, Round 1
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Julia-day-Burgos is so obscure it would be hard to find a single poem of hers. In any language.
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Page Number and Citation:
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