CHICANO 188 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rodney King, Departmentalization, North American Free Trade Agreement
22 May 2018
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Lecture 6: Chicana/o Studies Departmentalization at UCLA
“Problem of how to translate knowing into telling...” (White, 1980)
Objectivity doesn’t exist in history→important for him to declare
this (something known in ethnic studies and by all poc) because as a
white scholar his work is more likely to be read by other white
people/scholars
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How do we make it accessible?
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Better way to do history is to write on multiple perspectives
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How do we end stories? Do we ask questions about where we’re
headed?
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When you write history in a certain way you are exerting power
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Part of the work we need to do to write history is to excavate, dig and recover
what has been covered up by european history
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May 5, 1993: Cal poly pomona students carry coffin in protest that cal poly
president meet raza demands
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“History begins with bodies and artifacts: living brains, fossils, texts,
buildings…” (Trouillot)
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Campus racial climate: “CRL is defined as the overall racial environment of the
college campus”
To have a healthy CRL must be inclusion of POC at all levels
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“A curriculum that reflects the historical and contemporary
experiences of poc”
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outreach , retention, graduation of soc
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University mission that reinforces the institutions commitment to
diversity
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UCLA doesn’t exist in a vacuum, CRL and UCLA overall are affected by what
is happening in LA→CA→US→transnational
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1990s: decade of unrest
1992 LA uprising (Rodney King) →recorded what we already knew
was happening, everyone saw how the LAPD lied to the cameras
and how an all white jury said the police officers were not guilty;
most taken items during uprising (not rising) were 1) diapers and 2)
baby formula
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1992 Columbus protests→Tongva nation actively involved (hold sit-
ins despite being spit on, dogs released on them, arrested)
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1994 Zapatista uprisings→saw a group of indigenous communities
rising up and kicking out the Mexican gov from their land post
NAFTA
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1994 Student protests (prop 187)
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California’s racial climate
Governor pete wilson: anti-latina/o and anti-immigrant rhetoric
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Trio propositions (187, 209, 227)
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Re-elected by promising to create policies for increasing deportation,
stopping immigration, English only, building a wall
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Uc system hunger strikes
1990 davis: cross cultural center
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1993 ucla: chicana/o studies
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1993 riverside: asian american studies
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1999 berkeley: ethnic studies
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Schools historically in the US are built to educate the elite
UCLA wasn’t built to teach Chicanxs/Blacks but was built and
funded by our ancestors and our contemporaries maintain this shit
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We are both workers and scholars within the white academia
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Who built UCLA?
Bricks from Dickson brick yard in east LA brought to UCLA to
build buildings
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“Mules are the quite heroes who helped build our campus.”
Dehumanizes the men of color who are standing there (in the
picture) and credits MULES with building UCLA
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Berkeley was financed with money from the foreign minors tax laws (asian and
mexican)
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Week$7
Tuesday,* May* 22,*2018
4:22*PM
Document Summary
Problem of how to translate knowing into telling (white, 1980) Objectivity doesn"t exist in history important for him to declare this (something known in ethnic studies and by all poc) because as a white scholar his work is more likely to be read by other white people/scholars. Better way to do history is to write on multiple perspectives. When you write history in a certain way you are exerting power. Part of the work we need to do to write history is to excavate, dig and recover what has been covered up by european history. May 5, 1993: cal poly pomona students carry coffin in protest that cal poly president meet raza demands. History begins with bodies and artifacts: living brains, fossils, texts, buildings (trouillot) Campus racial climate: crl is defined as the overall racial environment of the college campus . To have a healthy crl must be inclusion of poc at all levels.
