CHICANO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Substance Abuse, Feminist Epistemology, Heterosexism
7 May 2018
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Theoretical Concepts in Chicana and Chicano Studies
Anzaldua: Borderlands
Step 1: Awareness of the history of the border
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Step 2: facing you shadow beast (internalized hatred and rebel)
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Step 3: the snakebite
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Step 4: Surrendering to Coatlicue and shedding skins
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Step 5: Freeing the Wild tongue
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Step 6: Re-Membering Our stories
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Step 7: Mestiza Consciousness
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Guzman: Affective anemia
A "hegemonic de-valorization of immigrant Latina subjects and their labor
in the United States that results in apathy and a lack of basic human
empathy and mutual human recognition for the underprivileged." (459)
The norm in higher education
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Required of Latinx students moving from working to middle class
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Guzman: Neoliberal University
Contrary to initial idealized goals of education for emancipation
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Commodification of higher education
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Focus on uniformity, productivity, 'disciplined and selective sympathy'
(Newfield 2003: 108) (459)
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Ethos of profit over people (461)
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Center individualism , minimize social responsibility (461)
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Goal is to attract student "customers" who will be trained to be elite
workers
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Georgina Guzman
"With these principles structuring the university, students and professors
exist in a constant state of anxiety: they police and compare themselves,
their productivity and performance, all in an effort to be seen as exhibiting
high value as workers, as their utmost concern is being and/or keeping a
job. Ultimately, students are professionalized to regard their education,
their grades, and college majors as a means to an end - the end being a
high-paying job on the global economic stage." (461)
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Anzaldua: Borderlands
Step 1: Awareness of the history of the border
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Step 2: Facing your shadow Beat (Internalized Hatred & Rebel)
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Step 3: The Snakebite
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Step 4: Surrendering to Coatlicue & shedding skins
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Step 5: Freeing the Wild Tongue
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Step 6: Re-Membering Our Stories
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Step 7: Mestiza Consciousness
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Traditional History to Chicana/o/x History
Traditional History-Juan Gomez-Quinones
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Deena Gonzalez
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Emma Perez
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Gloria Anzaldua
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Guzman: Affective Anemia
“A hegemonic de-valorization of immigrant Latina subjects and their
labor in the United States that results in apathy and lack “ (459)
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The
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Neoliberal University
Contrary to initial idealized goals of education for emancipation
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Commodification of higher education
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Focus on uniformity, productivity, disciplined and selective sympathy
(459)
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Ethos of profit over people (461)
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Center individualism, minimize social responsibility (461)
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Goal is to attract student “customers” who will
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Georgina Guzman:
“With these principles structuring the university, students and proffesors
exist in a constant state
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Chicana Feminist Epistemology (CFE): Calderon, et al.
Critique of doinant research paradigms
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Decolonization of research process
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Requires deep introspection, vision for something different
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Recover silenced voices through ne methodological tools
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Chicana Feminist Epistemology (CFE)
Critique of dominant research paradigms
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Decolonization of research process
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Requires
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516: Cultural Intuition (Calderon)
Coyolxauhqui: “a process of healing through words (Keating 2008: 19)
Jackie Caraves: Lecture
Bridging themes
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Joto Literature (Gay Chicano Males)
1961-1993
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John Rechy first to produce Gay Chicano Literature and dominated much
of the production for the first 30 years of Gay/Joto Literature
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1960’s and 70’s Joto
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The literature if this time began using
Mainstream feminism’s gender standpoint epistemelogy intersected with
Marxist Lesbian and Third World Feminist
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Chicana Lesbian Scholorship came into forefront with the release of the
seminal text, “This bridge…”
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Joto Literature
Joto Literature expands its literature content to include: mystery novels
adressing HIV/AIDS. Substance abuse and relationship
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Chicano Nationalism
Did not openly accept gay men and lesbians among its rank
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Institutionalised
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Heterosexism and homophobia-discrimination against homosexuals
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The Creation of Queer Aztlan
A rupture between a “Queer Nation” based on “anglo centricity” and
Chicano Nationalusm, whuch never accepted openly gay men and lesbian
among its ranks
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Man or Woman Who’s to Say video
Sisgendered
You identify with the gender or sex you were given at birth
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Trans in Aztlan
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