HIS 72B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wage Labour, Institutionalized Discrimination, Reproductive Labor
Document Summary
Border journeys and lives: chicana women in the southwest. Border journeys: numbers, push and pull factors. Work and community in the us: mexicana farm workers, strategies for dealing with difficult work/living conditions. Chicana: refers to mexican and mexican-american women. Comes out of 1960-70s and the chicana student movement. Generational marker of people who came of age during or after that era. Embraced by people who identify with the ideas of the chicana movement. Migration was part of a larger, longer history that includes other migrations, as well as conquest. Multi-layered: some people in the neighborhoods migrated there decades before, many were the descendants of people who became citizens (ca, Political turmoil -- connected to economic turmoil. Modernization movement taking place under an autocratic ruler, profilio diaz. Modernization was disruptive to rural communities because it was connected to a nationalizing of rural lands (government stripped people of their lands and took control of it)
