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In “Leave your name at the border” by Manuel Munoz he talks about how his stepfather had to change his name to get employed in Dinuba. Dinuba is a city with a diversity of many different races. Munoz stepfather got hired doing fieldwork, but he only got the job because he went from Antonio to Tony. Munoz states “My stepfather’s experience with Anglicization of his name-Antonio to Tony-ties into something bigger than learning English. For him, the erasure of his name was about deference and subservience.Becoming Tony gave him a measure of access as he struggled to learn English and get more fieldwork”(82). Munoz point is that his stepfather had to change his name to blend in with everyone else, but that is one of the reasons why language can divide people by names or race. Munoz stepfather is not happy about that change but he has to do it to be able to support his family. On the other hand that divides Munoz stepfather and his bosses because of the discrimination he is having to put up with just to get a

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