Before delving into Aztec Angel, closer examination of Chicano literature will serve as an excellent primer for understanding how Salinas felt when writing the piece. After a turbulent 1960’s Civil Rights Movement, the Chicano movement has made a significant impact on societal change. At the heart of the movement is a sense of pride in their Chicano heritage and keeping culture alive through writing, helping unite other Mexican Americans identify with the issues needing change. According to an article on the ChicanoMovement.Wikispaces.com, the three main goals of the Chicano Movement were: restoration of land, rights for farm workers, and education reforms. One of the primary goals of the modern Chicanos has been to voice the disparities between their upbringings versus the more privileged Anglo-Saxon experience.
Argument/Summary on “Cultural Memory and Chicanidad: Detecting History, Past and Present, in Lucha Corpi’s Gloria Damasco Series” Ralph E. Rodriguez in “Cultural Memory and Chicanidad: Detecting History, Past and Present, in Lucha Corpi’s Gloria Damasco Series” examines Lucha Corpi’s series and what they expose about the development of Chicano identity and the spread of Chicano history. An example of the author’s thesis is when he explains that he examining Lucha Corpi because “she investigates the various historical shifts and constructions of Chicanidad since the Chicana/o movement…more systematically than her Chicano counterparts writing in the detective genre” (Rodriguez). Rodriguez further supports his claim with a number of examples from Lucha Corpi’s Gloria Damasco series. First, Rodriguez states, “Throughout the Damasco series, Gloria’s memories challenge traditional understandings of U.S history and shape-shift into her own construction of Chicana/o identity and community” (Rodriguez). Second, Rodriguez says, “Corpi seeks to build a causally linear narrative about the development of the Chicana/o community, a linearity consistent with the epistemology of the detective novel” (Rodriguez).
How did they deal with racial slur and sexist remark? How did they attempt to negotiate social interactions and informal labor arrangements with employers and their families? Romero does not state everything directly but she gives a abstract.She answers her questions with vauable inforamtion but she considers theory methods about mexican americans. Therefore it causes a full explaination. She has a hypothesis on the Chicanas which is their ethinicity, class, and race.
Cortés became almost completely dependent on her for her language capabilities and her understanding of native culture (Greenblatt 145). Some scholars, such as Stephen Greenblatt in his book, Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World, focus their discussion of Doña Marina on analyzing this significant role that she played in the Conquest of New Spain. Greenblatt’s writing is an example of a scholarly approach to analyzing Marina because his reasoning logically stems from historical evidence. Other scholars, however, such as Cordelia Candelaria in her essay, “La Malinche, Feminist Prototype,” and Frances E. Karttunen in her book, Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors, become entangled in the futile debate that investigates Doña Marina’s motives for aiding Cortés. Through analysis of her motives, they both attempt to argue that Marina should be viewed as innocent in regard to the downfall of the Aztec Empire.
Follow Me on Twitter @CDunkins Professor Mike Fraga CHS 100 November 13, 2012 Book Review: Song of the Hummingbird by Graciela Limon The novel, Song of the Hummingbird by Graciela Limon is a gripping and scintillating story about Mexico’s conquest by the Spaniards in the 16th century. In order to employ Chicana Literature, the author uses Huitzitzilín who is a female protagonist to recount the story from her perspective. Huitzitzilín is very adamant about contrasting the illustrious historical colonial portrayal of the conquest of the indigenous people of Mexico. She is unapologetic and quite proud of her savage roots, which were destroyed by the Spanish colonialists. The novel was set about sixty years after the fateful intrusion
This topic is relevant because Mexico City is the center of the political decisions in the country and important reforms have been implemented in the last decade to increase citizen participation through mechanisms established in the new laws. Even though democracy and citizen participation has been part of the Latin American political system for a long time, countries like Mexico are still struggling to have the right mechanisms and motivations for citizen involvement in public issues, mainly because of the lack of an authentic democratic tradition and a history of strong centralist governments. In this paper I will analyze the particular situation of citizen participation in Mexico City, and will consider Delegación Cuajimalpa as my case study. From the data retrieved I will investigate if the recent efforts have been successful in increasing citizen participation and as a consequence increase the citizen’s quality of life and safety. BACKGROUND It is relevant for the purpose of this study, to give a brief explanation of the historical background of citizen participation and democracy in Mexico, in order to understand the reason why such political system has had difficulties to prosper in the region after all these years of hard efforts.
The three articles included in this unit focus on representations of what can be called ‘Mexicanidad’. The three elements under discussion are used to identify Mexicans in the eye of others (Aztec dance, chili, the aquatic commerce of Xochimilco and Chalco), from a historical perspective and also discussing the way the community –Mexican in particular, and Latino in general- connects to their historical past through iconic symbols like the aforementioned. Garner (2009) explores Aztec dance in the context of its connection to the Sun Dances of United States and focuses her discussion on the contrasting political identity of the dancers. Although the Sun Dance and the Aztec Dance share similar roots and both of them seem to have become more
The pain and suffering in her life served as the main source for her inspritation. Frida artistically engaged in reviving her cultural identity by emphasizing her Mexican heritage. She included her beliefs and ideas in her work. Frida’s career will be compared and analyzed through the Holland’s Theory of Personalities in Work Environments and in order to do that, her life events must be examined and one must understand her family, her childhood, her accident, her stormy marriage to Diego Rivera, all key elements in her career. Her Family Frida’s father, Guillermo Kahlo (1872-1941) was born Carl Wilhelm Kahlo in Germany.
It was supposed to stand for all Mexicans. Ibid., 163. The Mexican people needed an identity and like all other nations needed to come together on common ground to form a nation. There were more then just books and short stories that were used as visual practices to construct a nation-state in early Latin America.
Argument Analysis In her essay “ It’s hard enough to be me”, the author Anna Lisa Raya did a great job of relating her own experience of a multicultural American and the confusion she felt about her own identify. Anna Lisa Raya was born in Mexico and grew up in L.A. She identified herself with Mexican background and Puerto Rican background as well. However, when she entered college in New York, she discovered herself as “Latina”. The author also clearly explains and argues how she got caught in between “selling-out” heritage, and being a “spic” to American.” By giving an excellent depiction of the emotions a minority citizen experiences, responding in a defensive way, Raya totally convinces the readers and make them feel interested reading the story. The author places her thesis statement right at the beginning of the reading with very simple words telling exactly what the reading will be “ When I entered college, I discovered I was Latina.