four separated half page response to reading question
Humanities
1. Those three poems uploaded
What does this poem tell us about identity? What is the message the author is trying to convey?
2.
Pick one word from the list from the “Historical and Intellectual Presence of Mexican Americans,” pick one word from the list from “Toward an Operational Definition of the Mexican American” and come up with your own independent definition for these terms using at least 1-2 different outside resources and cite your sources. This will require you to do a little online research. Demonstrate where in the reading this keyword or concept is being used and how? How does the author engage this concept? Do they use it differently than from what you found online? How does it relate to their larger arguments?
Then answer the one question from “On Culture.” How does Gómez-Quiñones explains culture and what does he say about Mexican American culture?
Pick One Word From This List
Octavio Ignacio Romano-V., “The Historical and Intellectual Presence of Mexican Americans” (1969)
Mestizo/Mestizaje
Indianism
Historical Confrontation
Cultural Nationalism
Anglo-Saxon Conformity
Bi-Culturalism
Pick One Word From This List
Fernando Peñalosa, “Toward an Operational Definition of the Mexican American” (1970)
racial entity/ race
ethnic group
barrio
caste
Mexican American community
antecedents (historical antecedents)
Everyone Answer This Question
Juan Gómez-Quiñones, “On Culture” (1977)
How does Gómez-Quiñones explains culture and what does he say about Mexican American culture?
3.
Pick one or two words from the list from the “Ramón Gutiérrez, “Unraveling America’s Hispanic Past: Internal Stratification and Class Boundaries (1986),” pick one or two words from the list from “Mario García, “La Frontera: The Border as Symbol and Reality in Mexican-American Thought” (1985)” and come up with your own independent definition for these terms using at least 1-2 different outside resources and cite your sources. This will require you to do a little online research. Demonstrate where in the reading this keyword or concept is being used and how? How does the author engage this concept? Do they use it differently than from what you found online? How does it relate to their larger arguments?
Pick One Or Two Words From This Word List
Ramón Gutiérrez, “Unraveling America’s Hispanic Past: Internal Stratification and Class Boundaries (1986)
homogeneous group
cultural identity
national consciousness
castas
gente de razón/ gente sin razón
the origin of the word gringo
Pocho
The origin of the word Chicano
Pick One Or Two Words From This Word List
Mario García, “La Frontera: The Border as Symbol and Reality in Mexican-American Thought” (1985)
US-Mexican border
First great wave of Mexican immigrants during the early twentieth century.
La Opinión Newspaper
El Espectador Newspaper
Sin Fronteras Newspaper
CASA-General Brotherhood of Workers
The Chicano Movement
Black power movement
4.
Read “El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán” (1969) but no terms or words will be pulled from this reading. Pick one or two key terms or questions from Rafael Perez-Torres, “Refiguring Aztlán” (1997), and pick one or two key terms or questions from Ramón Gutiérrez, “Internal Colonialism: An American Theory of Race” (2004).
Key Terms
If you pick a key term, then come up with your own independent definition for these terms using at least 1-2 different outside resources and cite your sources. Make sure your sources are academic sources. This will require you to do a little online research. Demonstrate where in the reading this keyword or concept is being used and how? How does the author engage this concept? Do they use it differently than from what you found online? How does it relate to their larger arguments?
Questions
And if you chose to answer a question respond with a couple of sentences and no more than one paragraph.
Pick One or Two Terms/Questions From This Word List
Rafael Perez-Torres, “Refiguring Aztlán” (1997)
Chicanismo
Aztlán
In this article there are many scholars who describes Aztlán. Pick one or two scholars and describe their perspective on Aztlán. (Daniel Alacrón, Cherrie Morgana, Mario Barrera, Michael Pina, Luis Leal, Elyette Labarthe, Genaro Padilla, Sylvia Gonzales and Ernest Laclau)
El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán
Gabacho
Diaspora
What did William Safran and Mario Barrera argue on diaspora?
Frantz Fanon
How has “The Plan” been influenced by Fanon’s thought?
Historical consciousness
Alurista
Cultural Nationalism/political nationalism
What does Jorge Klor de Alva state about cultural and political nationalism?
Nationalist movements
Pick One or Two Terms/ Questions From This Word List
Ramón Gutiérrez, “Internal Colonialism: An American Theory of Race” (2004)
internal colonialism
Liberation Theology
Historical genealogy
Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
Black Panther Party
dependency theory
economic underdevelopment
What did André Gunder Frank note on inequalities and who did she critique?
What did Pablo Gonzáles Casanova and Julio Cotler note on internal colonialism?
What did the book “Black Power” have to offer?
El Plan de Santa Bárbara
What did Robert Blauner argue within this article?
What did Rodolfo Acuña argue in his book, “Occupied America”?
