ENGL 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Emancipation Proclamation, Mexicans Of European Descent, Mexican Americans
1 Oct 2016
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Differences between : latino, latin american: american term for political grouping, hispanic: spanish, mexican american: pre-civil rights, chicano: post-civil rights, brown pride and ethnicity, sees us border as artificial line. At time, it was as if scholars had forgot history of racialization in literature. Scholars especially were shocked at how the writers had gone against heritage. For the writers, in this case ruiz de burton, they wanted no association with the racialized. Indians and wanted to be associated with whiteness. Chicanxs scholars did try to make ruiz de burton a chicano writer, but her political opinions and agendas did not align with the political standing of chicano: she wanted to conflate white mexican-americans. Lapaz citizens to the us) met maria on the ship and would marry her. Burton would gain a political standing within washington, becoming friends with. Her position allowed her to get her husband high positions within the military.
