the name of the book is Once i was you by Maria Hinojosa
Assignment Directions: Upload an MLA-formatted Word document in which you respond to the following writing prompt. Base your response on the book Once I Was You as well as your own personal experiences and perspectives. Limit your response to 2 paragraphs.
Prompt: As Maria’s father, Raúl, travels by bus to the U.S. for the first time, he is faced with a choice when the bus makes a pit stop. Will he use the restroom marked WHITE or the one marked COLORED? In the end he chooses to use the WHITE restroom. At the end of chapter 1 Maria writes, “Whiteness became an unspoken privilege that always felt like it should never have been his or ours. We were not Americans, but if we kept our mouths shut, sometimes we might be able to pass.” How does reading about Raúl’s experience of segregation in America in the 1960s change or complicate your understanding of this period in American history? What would you have done in his position?