Raising a Whitesican

Our son is reduced to a racist trope by an ugly American.

“Ah, he’s a Whitesican!” Jacob said to us before immediately repeating himself. “He’s a Whitesican!”

I’ve thought a lot about what it means that our son Leo was born in Mexico and is Mexican in a way we never will be. Oaxaca is also a very Indigenous place, and a place with multiple distinct Indigenous groups, making Oaxacan culture even harder to descri…