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Old 10-10-2009, 12:16 AM
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Try to push this stuff in Mexico to every day Mexicans:

In particular, we will explore the various issues and struggles that Chicanas and Chicanos organized themselves around, such as labor rights, education, the Vietnam War, police brutality, racism, sexism, class exploitation, political exclusion, and cultural awareness/recovery.

Students will gain insight into diverse ideologies, theories and legacies of the Chicano Movement and consider their relevance for contemporary issues, debates and scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Chicana/o Studies.

*Objectives: Students completing CH ST 168E will be familiar with:

�***** History of the Chicano Movement and organizations

�***** History of the fields of Chicana Studies and Chicano Studies

�***** Intellectual History of various Chicana/o Studies theories

�***** Contemporary relevance and relationship between Chicana/o movement, Chicana/o Studies' intellectual production and society at large

Recommended: Dionne Espinoza, "'Revolutionary Sisters': Women's Solidarity and Collective Identification among the Brown Berets in East Los Angeles. Aztl�n Vol. 26, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 17-58

February 12 Los Planes Reconsidered: In-Class Analysis of Los Planes

El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan (IN READER)

El Plan de Santa Barbara, Selections (IN READER)

El Plan de La Raza Unida: Preamble, La C.A.U.S.A., Raza Unida Party: A Call for Self-Determination, New Aztlanes—Fact or Fantasy? Dedicated to La Familia Cosmica and Message to Aztl�n (IN READER)

Brown Berets' 10-Point Program (HANDOUT)

Week 8 Chicana Feminisms and Gender: From Sex Roles to Patriarchy

February 26 Early Movimiento Chicana Interventions

Oropeza and Espinoza, Enriqueta Vasquez, Selections (TBA)

Adaljiza Sosa Riddell, "Chicanas and El Movimiento" (IN READER)

Maxine Baca Zinn, "Political Familism: Toward Sex Role Equality in Chicano Families" (IN READER)

From Alma Garcia, Chicana Feminist Thought, Selections (HANDOUTS)

Film Clips: La Chicana


February 28 Critical Chicana Feminist and Queer Positionings

Denise Segura and Beatriz Pesquera, "Beyond Indifference and Antipathy: The Chicana Movement and Chicana Feminist Discourse" (IN READER)

Perlita Dicochea, "Chicana Critical Rhetoric: Recrafting La Causa in Chicana Movement Discourse, 1970-1979" (IN READER)

Cherrie Moraga, "Queer Aztl�n: The Re-Formation of Chicano Tribe" (IN READER)

Gloria Anzald�a, "The Homeland, Aztl�n/El otro M�xico" (IN READER)

Week 10 Where Do We Go From Here: The Chicano Movement and Chicana/o Studies

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Old 10-10-2009, 07:48 AM
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Most Cal States have whole departments devoted to this. While at the same time other departments, teaching the skills needed to advance and contribute in society, are so impacted student have to wait for up to a year for room to open so they may attend those classes. Yet our tax dollars are paying for this MECha crap. And those 'professors' teaching it do not hold those students attending to any kind of a high standard, just attend class and you will pass. They graduate with the knowledge of how to claim they are 'victims' of the gringo, and not much more. If you ever have a discussion with Naui on something other than the Mexicamovement, he wouldn't have a clue as to what you were talking about, except maybe how to post on youtube.

This just ruffles my feathers so much, not just because of the waste of our tax dollars, but the waste of a whole section of society that will not reach anywhere close to what is needed to contribute and succeed for everyone in our society. Being a victim never gets anyone anywhere.

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Most Cal States have whole departments devoted to this. While at the same time other departments, teaching the skills needed to advance and contribute in society, are so impacted student have to wait for up to a year for room to open so they may attend those classes. Yet our tax dollars are paying for this MECha crap. And those 'professors' teaching it do not hold those students attending to any kind of a high standard, just attend class and you will pass. They graduate with the knowledge of how to claim they are 'victims' of the gringo, and not much more. If you ever have a discussion with Naui on something other than the Mexicamovement, he wouldn't have a clue as to what you were talking about, except maybe how to post on youtube.

This just ruffles my feathers so much, not just because of the waste of our tax dollars, but the waste of a whole section of society that will not reach anywhere close to what is needed to contribute and succeed for everyone in our society. Being a victim never gets anyone anywhere.
Your post reminded me of an article in either the Press Enterprise or SB Sun about 2005 -2006. I can't find it right now.

The interviewee was the daughter of illegal aliens who grew up in the Inland Empire and made it to UCLA. The jist of her pre-University life was cruising along without a care in the world, no problems at all, then after just one day in Chicano class " I was like, oh my gosh, I've been exploited".

That struck me. I'll never forget that "revelation".

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I feel I need to restate a post from above:

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The failure of Chicano studies isn't the failure of Chicanistas to ursurp the educational system or insert themselves into politics (as evidenced by that loony bin masquerading as the California State Legislature).

The failure is that the Chicano "visionaries" of the early years miscalculated the effect of cultural memory of Mexico and the imprint of its history on its people as well as many who are derived from both Mexico and America but belong to neither.

Including the founders of the movement.

Yet, let's bring in more Mexico to make America into something radical, racist Chicanismo can't actually live with but pretends to be - Mexico and Mexican. (Why else would they push such a selectively interpreted parody of Mexican culture in school?)

Take Villaraigosa, for example. He was a radical Mechista who instigated a lot of shit for his racist cause in college. Which, of course, he now has to distract from whenever it is brought up. Makes him look so like a racist. Politics, you know.

Now that he is the Mayor of Los Angeles, what is he presiding over?

A bankrupt bag filled full of imported foreign poverty and an over sized number of their American born children throwing it all away through ignorance and fratricide.

With rich white people still living on the hill getting non stop richer from it all.

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I want to take this on a slightly different heading, but I might take a couple or few days off from this thread before I do.

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I want to take this on a slightly different heading, but I might take a couple or few days off from this thread before I do.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

I've been scoping out some possible billboard sites in this regard. We have a new Schools Super up here ya know.....he's says he going to listen for the first 100 days

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Just for a little diversion, some LA County Cholo humor.

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Man Shoots Self While Posing for Picture

Boyle Heights

Hector Robles won’t be smiling for any cameras anytime soon. From his hospital bed, he warns people to be careful while posing with guns. “I know it looks cool but just make sure you know how to use the safety and don’t point them at yourself.”

Just two days ago Hector, a resident of Boyle Heights California, was rushed to the USC Medical Center after accidentally shooting himself twice while posing with two small hand guns. “I was trying to take a picture to post as my profile for MySpace.com when both guns in my hands somehow went off.” stated Robles.

Hector Robles already has 46 comments on his pictures on MySpace.com.

Most of the comments are from teenage cholas who have left comments like “Damn ese you look sexy eh.”

Does Hector regret taking the picture? “No. Shooting myself, yes.” said Robles. Police told reporters that as soon as Hector is released from the hospital, he will be taken into police custody for having unlicensed firearms.

“It’s all good holmes.” Said Hector, “This is only strike two.”
I see this as like Jeff Foxworthy and his Redneck humor - the laugh comes from (however exaggerated or unexpected) how the grain of truth is presented.

From Puro Pedo Magazine, which I believe can be loosely translated as "a bunch of bull shit", "just fooling around", or "just kidding".