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Chicano Culture Homework

Weekly Questions and Discussion Points

[in the Reader: Week 6]

1) Acuña, Occupied America, Chap.13 “Goodbye America: The Chicano in the 1960s” pp. 295-

315 & 318-325

Garcia, Chicana Feminist Thought:

2) Anonymous, “La Chicana: Her Role in The Movement”

3) Sosa Riddell, “Chicanas and El Movimiento”

4) Lopez, “The Role of the Chicana within the Student Movement”

2) Acuña, Occupied America, Chap.13 “Goodbye America: The Chicano in the 1960s” pp. 295-

315 & 318-325

1. A number of political and economic changes took place during the exciting Movement Era of the 1960s and 1970s. Among these occurrences were the Chicano student activities, events and organizations. Mention and elaborate on four of these.

2. Considerable labor and community organizing was also taking place during this historic period. Discuss and elaborate on two of these union organizing efforts. Identify the region, key issues and the people involved.

3. In what manner did this baby boom generation reaffirm its ties to its Mexican heritage?

Anonymous, “La Chicana: Her Role in The Movement”

Sosa Riddell, “Chicanas and El Movimiento”

López, “The Role of the Chicana within the Student Movement”

* Each of the three articles, written in the 1970s, about Chicana activism raised similar yet also different points about Chicana involvement in the Movement. In particular, Sosa Riddell focused on how the dominant society’s stereotypes about Chicanos were internalized within the Chicana/o community, while López discussed the Chicanas who created separate organizations which addressed issues of gender. Explain and elaborate on what each of these three authors mentioned in their respective articles.