ENGL 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chicano Literature, Chicano Movement, Aztlán
4 Oct 2016
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League of the untied latin american citizens (lulac): 1940/50s political group that fought against being categorized as non-white. Collection of data, usually seen as politically neutral. Often seen as collection texts, library, government data, records, etc What society preserves and uses to define itself. Modern day example: the control of isis. Archive (traditionally) is connected to state and history: also official history: a backed up archive which is created by those in power/government. In 1960"s there were many attempts to expand the archive to marginalized women and people: this proved to be difficult, as marginalized people weren"t meant to be remembered. Revolution, but because were marginalized never portrayed in art/literature/history. Found another painting portraying an african-american man taking part of american revolution, however was not centre but portrayed as servant to a white general: as if his presence incidental, armastad was an accident not meant to be preserved. Nothing indicates how crucial armastad was too the.
