Chicanas' Resistance

Paper Summary:

This paper provides a depiction of the diverse aspects of the Chicanas' experiences as women of color in the United States today, through an exploration of Mexican-American women's conditions and struggles in relation to issues of race, ethnicity, class and gender. The paper discusses acts of domination, such as the cultural representations of Chicanas in America (in media, history, fiction, etc.), the institutional practices that have traditionally been used to reinforce structures of inequalities, the political exploitation and the economic subjugation of women in the labor market.

Table of Contents:
Chapter One
Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of Study
Overview of Study
Chapter Summary
Chapter Two
Preliminary Literature Review
Cultural Representations of Chicanas in America
Institutional Practices that Reinforce Structures of Inequality
Chicanas' Acts of Resistance
Construction a Modern Chicana Identity
Chicana Feminism in a Global Context
Chapter Summary
Chapter Three
Proposed Methodology

From the Paper:

"History has shown time and again that when people have been oppressed long enough, they will rise up and slay their oppressors. Although the Chicana resistance did not reached this level in the past, it would seem that this population is at a distinct disadvantage in attempting to prosecute any meaningful reform because mainstream Americans simply do not want to hear about them, and if they do, the government has managed to place a sinister "spin" on these activities. According to Urrieta (2004), the Mexican American community has always been active seeking improvements in the educational conditions of their children, including the successful litigation of court cases against segregation a decade prior to Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. During this early period of Chicana movimientos in the 1960s, an estimated 10,000 Chicana/o students walked out of classes on March 3, 1968 in East Los Angeles to protest the unequal nature of their schooling (Urrieta, 2004)."

Sample of Sources Used:

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• Calderon, H., Saldivar, & Saldivar, J. D., & Trujillo, R. (1991). Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano literature, culture, and ideology. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Castaneda, A. I. (2001). 'Que Se Pudieran Defender (So you could defend yourselves)': Chicanas, regional history, and national discourses. Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, 22(3), 116.

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