GE CLST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nuclear Family, Racialization, Felipe Guaman Poma De Ayala

• School: UCLA
• Department: General Education Clusters
• Course: GE CLST 20A
• Professor: Ortiz Vilma

Document Summary

Opens with her story and nuclear family. Throughout her novel, however, slippages in the temporal occur and the book extends both vertically and horizontally. Light from the carissa plains: revitalization (1900-1961) Not an ending, put a point of hope. End of the world = ending the old world era with the previous native american life/structure. The geographies and categories of ca indians do not reflect the relationship to the histories, land, place, and organization of communities. But missions have become the organizing principle that pulled various communities together. Ucla land is located on the tongva land. Many indians pretended to become mexican or hide their indian background. Miranda questions truth and to what extend can lies somehow merge into the truth. We see these moves and genealogies or violence through the personal memoir that reframes our received narratives. Native americans weren"t really conquered in 1492, but rather 500 years later through mass government action.