Chicano Studies

Mendez v. Westminster

Made it illegal to segregate Mexican American children in California schools

Zoot Suit Riots

A series of riots in L.A. California during WW2, soldiers stationed in the city and Mexican youths because of the zoot suits they wore.

Rasquachismo

Material expression of decoration Steeped in attitude Derives from lived experiences of artists More multigenerational connotations Rasquachismo is acclaimed & affirmed Shared barrio sensibility

Chicano Moratorium

Movement by Chicano activists that organized anti-vietnam war demonstrations and activities throughout the southwest and other Mexican American communities

Dolores Huerta

taught farmworkers how to become citizens and how to vote; earned more money to buy food and clothing for them; worked with Cesar Chavez to form the National Farm Workers Association

Roe v. Wade

(1973) legalized abortion on the basis of a woman's right to privacy

Sleepy Lagoon

(August 1942) murder of mexican american man; many men put on trial with the only evidence being their appearances

Chavez Ravine

- Example of terrible spatial damage inflicted upon the Mexican community - 7,500 mostly Mexican families were evicted from this 300-acre community - the city of Los Angeles seized Chavez Ravine, destroying the previously self-sufficient community - the entire area was given to Walter O'Malley, who owned the Brooklyn Dodger's baseball team, as an inducement for him to move the franchise to LA - it would take three generations for just a fraction of the displaced families to regain a comparable economic level - this is part of an overwhelming universal strategy for class and racial advantage

Gentrification

A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area.

Social Justice

-"Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all."-"Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both: (a) to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged, consistent with the just savings principle, and (b) attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity."-A Theory of Justice - John Rawls

Cultural Nationalism

A process of protecting, either formally (with laws) or informally (with social values), the primacy of a certain cultural system against influences (real or imagined) from another culture.

machismo

A sense of virility, personal worth, and pride in one's maleness.

Equal Protection Clause

14th amendment clause that prohibits states from denying equal protection under the law, and has been used to combat discrimination

Cesar Chavez

1927-1993. Farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist who helped form the National Farm Workers Association, later the United Farm Workers.

Liberalism

A belief that government can and should achieve justice and equality of opportunity.

Feminism

A female movement for gender equality.

Critical Race Theory

A paradigm grounded in race awareness and an intention to achieve racial justice

Post-Colonial Feminism

A perspective that critiques Western imperialism and imperialist tendencies of Western feminism and emphasizes historically defined colonial power relations that provide a foundational context for women's lives and struggles for change.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Author, poet, and musician of New Spain; eventually gave up secular concerns to concentrate on spiritual matters.

Culture

Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.

National Farm Workers Association

Organization headed by Cesar Chavez that worked to improve conditions for migrant workers

urban renewal

Program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private members, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities, and turn the land over to private developers.

I am Joaquin

Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales

Pachucos

Street gangs joined by Mexican- American teenagers. These were particularly distinctive because of their members' style of dress, which whites considered outrageous.

Community Service Organization

fought for political rights beginning in 1947; California group that educated poor migrant workers

Malintzin/Malinche

Translator for the Natives, joined Hernan Cortez with other natives who hated the Aztecs

Delano Grape Strike

Workers stopped picking grapes, encouraged people around the country to boycott table grapes. 1965-1970. Gave farm workers union recognition

immigrant culture

first generation of groups who freely decided to come to the US

Ruben Salazar

invoked the value of diversity and complexities of dual cultural identity, died from tear gas in Chicano civil rights movement- he was a writer from UT and wrote El paso Herald

United Farm Workers

organization of migrant workers formed to win better wages and working conditions led by Cesar Chevez

El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan

response to treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo teaching mexicans to live free with manifest desitny mestiso- mixed aztlan- reference to aztecs

gender roles

sets of behavioral norms assumed to accompany one's status as male or female

Suffrage

the right to vote

San Antonio v. Rodriguez

using property tax to fund public schools was not a violation of 14th amendment guarantee of equal protection, education not a fundamental right POWELL

The Feminine Mystique

written by Betty Friedan, journalist and mother of three children; described the problems of middle-class American women and the fact that women were being denied equality with men; said that women were kept from reaching their full human capacities