Junot Diaz Analysis

In this essay I will be talking about the author Junot Diaz and the social, political and histrocial context in which he wrote his stories. I will also be discussing about issues that were important to Diaz and what are his social and political convitions and how these convictions demonstrated his work such as Junot Díaz to speak on 'Immigration and Storytelling in the Age of Trump ' April 22, Author Junot Diaz stripped of honor after speaking out against the Dominican Republic and Junot Díaz wins world 's richest short story prize. Junot Diaz Born on December 31st 1968, is a fiction writer who was born in the Dominican Republic specifically Santo Dominigo. Diaz was the middle child in a family of five kids and immigrated to the U.S with

Díaz has also been stripped of the Order of Merit awarded to him by the Dominican Republic in 2009." These accusaions are from Diaz and Writer Edwidge Danticat telling congressional leaders to take action on the human rights crisis in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In addition to the Political scandal stated erlier about the trouble that Diaz shed to light, "After authors Edwidge Danticat, left, and Junot Diaz appealed to members of Congress to address what they say is a human rights crisis in the Dominican Republic, officials from the Dominican Republic attacked Diaz as "anti dominicano."Díaz, who had visited the Dominican Republic earlier that month, said, "There 's a state of terror" in its capitol city, Santo Domingo.“ Later what was said was The last time something like this happened was Nazi Germany, and yet people are like, shrugging about it,” Díaz told Fusion. “Think about how much fear you would have to feel for you to suddenly pick ... up and flee.” Selma denys any of these claims of uair anunjust treatment of the Haiten. Diaz nor his representative had responded to Selmas statment after. Also, In another Article dealing with social and political issues Junot Díaz is schedualed to speak on 'Immigration and

Junot Díazes talk" discusses social activism in academia" in an article from Blog Daily Herland. According to Presented by the Brown Center for Students of Color’s Heritage Series, Junot Díaz arrived at Salomon auditorium on Saturday night to discuss social activism in academia. This also was open to the public like the last talk. The lecture was talk for the" 2015 Latinx Ivy League Conference at Brown" organized by the Latino Heritage Series Programmers. Ignoring the lectern set up for the event, Junot Díaz walked up to the stage. He asserts, “I do have comments prepared, you don’t get as nerdy as me and not come ready to roll,” but that he wanted to flip the order of the lecture, given what has happened this week on campus. (Díaz transformed the structure of his lecture into a discussion, having students’ questions direct the conversation). He states that “nothing is more politicized than the status quo,” and that "many of us grow up weaned on status quo mentality" A student asked Díaz "how one might deal with racist and oppressive professors", (Given a situation where the instructor and student are in such an imbalance of power, with the instructor in control of the student’s grades and view of the world.) Díaz explained that we must wrestle with the idea that this has “never been a safe space for us.” Díaz addressed the students of color in the audience: “My goal is that as many of you will graduate. There’s a million at home holding down the fort. The bench is