CHICANO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Transphobia, Coatlicue, Coyolxauhqui
25 Apr 2018
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Tasks of chicana historians: to resurrect and revise (376) To find the women, re-explain their lives with agency. 1980"s us government lumped us together under the generic. Hispanic", rewriting history, so to speak, by suggesting that the tie to spain was greater than the tie to our indigenous heritage (377) Does not mean that everyone agrees or has the same experiences. Anzaldua"s mestiza consciousness is far more difficult to grasp for those whose racial and ethnic consciousness is absent, or de- historized, or regarded as something that can be overcharging shed or adopted at will (384) Step 1: awareness of the history of the border. The us mexico border es una herida abierta (35) Chapter 2: cultural tyranny and the shadow beast. What are the 2 faces if the shadow beast: internalization hatred (misogyny, sexism, heterosexism, anti-mexicanism, homophobia, (transphobia); fear of the self; fear of going home , or homophobia, facing your shadow.
