Chicana

Question 1

what is the chicano movement?

Answer 1

Critique of colonialism
Influenced by civil and social rights movements of 1960s and 1970s
Similarities with black nationalist movement: racial/ethnic pride* (La Raza)
Focus on migrant and farm workers

Question 2

what is the relationship between chicano movement and xicanisma?

Answer 2

Critique of patriarchy and sexism in Chicano movement
Critique of feminist movement
Critique of relationship between national identity and masculinity
Acknowledgement of the particular interests and experiences of Chicanas (Mexican American women)

Question 3

what are the principle themes of xicanisma?

Answer 3

Relationship between between colonialism and machismo
Some would say that there is also this idea existing pre-colonial contact before colonization
Racial and class discrimination
There are differences between black and Chicana feminism, colonized in different ways, blacks taken from territory instead of killed on their land. Chicana feminism there is an emphasis on restructuring family
In terms of interest white women were in the private sphere and wanted to branch out, where chicanas werren’t feeling from domestic lives because they lived exterior to the home as well
dismantling stereotypes
Role of lesbian and queer chicanas

Question 4

Explain mestiza identity

Answer 4

Gloria Anzaldua
“creation of yet another culture”
“new value system with images and symbols that connect us to each other and to the planet.”

Question 5

what is new mestiza consciousness

Answer 5

A feminist act
 Tolerance for ambiguity
 Rejection of dualism 
 Reinterpretation and deconstruction of history
 Engagement with machismo 
queers as cross-cultural brokers

Question 6

what are critiques of anzaldua?

Answer 6

Essentializing indigineity
unclear what her specific indigenous past is
by the way she talks about it essentializes indigenous people and indigenous ideas
Cosmic race myth