PP&D 177 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Feminist Movement, Sal Castro, Civil Disobedience
1 Jun 2018
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4/26/18
Lecture 4:
• 1968 - very significant of walkouts, Kennedy and MLK assassination, Mexico City
deaths, wildcats strikes in Paris, black athletes
• Sense of post war economy that we had to benefit from (growth was not happening?
Stagnant wages, low employment, riots everywhere)
• Political impact and cultural impact (in a philosophical sense)
• Golden Age of capitalism → women being women → “Hell no, we won’t go” antiwar
movement
• Professor was PI in Vietnam War, then came back to the 3rd World Strike (SFSU, UC
Berkeley, college campuses) against military movement
• Protesting LA conditions -- in 60s & 70s → African American civil rights movement,
segregation, scars of slavery, all caused discriminatory issues
• History of these powerful movements that happened at the same time (Chicano
movement was neglected, invisible)
• The Chicano movement claimed a “Chicano-ismo” ideology
• Claimed this name to signify indigenous culture, loss from Spanish-American
imperialism
• Very complex movement, after decades of discrimination and segregation
• Divisions within the Chicano movement of men and women
• Why were women ignored early on? What led to the women’s socialist challenges? Why
did Chicanos have a problem treating Chicanos equally?
o Macho-nism
o Male centeredness
o All still in existence today
• Division of labor different between Chicanos and Chicanos
• Chicanos = ideas, Chicanos = fundraising food
• These individuals that were active in the movement and eventually claimed an identity of
a “Chicano”
• Previously was a derogatory term
• Before 84’ → Mexican American generation that fought for the civil rights thru
mainstream ways
• New political identity as Chicano, Mexican-American is a more conservative, old, neutral
term
• East LA walkouts = frustration over the treatment of Chicanos inside and out of school
and education
• Also, time during the United Farm Worker -- urban phenomena, UFW a rural issue
• Chavez never considered himself a Chicano leader, was a labor leader but Chicano
movement considered a leader of Mexican Americans
o Believed in multiethnic movement
• Ernesto Galarza - “I do not agree with Ethnic labels. I identify with what the man or
woman does. A worker is a worker” ← a radical critique
o Concretely wrote a book that ended the Bracero movement, considered it slave
labor
o “You are in this a position because you are poor and a worker, not because you
are a worker”
• Students penalized for speaking Spanish in class
• Schools underfunded because of racism and inequality
• Chicano students saw their parents working = no work benefits, min wage, terrible
conditions
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