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9
working with African American civil rights and Black Power groups. Part
of the discussion I engage, then, is the ways in which Chicano/as learned
from African American liberation struggles and refashioned various
ideologies and strategies to suit their particular experiences as
Chicano/as.
In Chapter Two, I examine the issue of citizenship in relation to
African American and Chicano/a experiences in the United States. Here,
I explore the role of language to combat racist subjugation and to
rhetorically construct both identity and community for these two groups.
My aim is to demonstrate the places where the women writers of the
period were not diametrically opposed to some of the language of the
movements. This is a crucial point – for if the women found nothing of
use in the movements, why were they members of the organizations at
all? Following Stuart Hall’s “imagined communities,” I demonstrate the
usefulness of ethnic or race-based liberation movements during this era.
I also discuss the limitations of this paradigm, particularly for women and
mixed-race peoples. Using Nikhil Pal Singh’s idea of an “ideal national
subject,” I trace the ways African Americans and Chicano/as have reacted
to (and fought against) the limitations of citizenship enacted by the U.S.
over time.
Chapter Three is dedicated to ethnic/racial nationalist discourses
within the Black Arts/Black Power and Chicano movements. In
Object Description
| Title | "As shelters against the cold": women writers of the Black Arts and Chicano movements, 1965-1978 |
| Author | Ryder, Ulli Kira |
| Author email | uryder@usc.edu; uryder@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | American Studies & Ethnicity |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-08-27 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 27 October 2010. |
| Date published | 2010-10-27 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | McKenna, Teresa |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Sanchez, George J. Johnson, Dana |
| Abstract | This dissertation examines the work of women writers in the Black Arts and Chicano movements during the years 1965-1978. I argue that understanding the intersectional nature of the women's experiences is crucial for understanding their literary output. Further, I argue that Chicanas and African American women of this era challenged homogenous notions of community and racial identity and that we can trace the development of the Third World feminism and multiculturalism that came to the fore in the 1980s to this earlier period. Thus, this study also impacts the way we conceptualize identity formation and the creation of the literary canon. Investigating the ways in which these women integrated nationalist and feminist rhetoric and activism in their work is crucial for a full understanding of this critical period in U.S. history. At stake is an understanding of how Chicana and African American women in the United States have formed identities and communities; struggled for liberation and equality; and become part of the U.S. literary canon. |
| Keyword | Black Power; Black Arts movement; Chicano movement; civil rights; racial identity formation; womanism; borderlands theory; feminism; Third World feminism; nationalism; intersectionality |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1965/1978 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1698 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Ryder, Ulli Kira |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Ryder-2415 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Ryder-2415.pdf |
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| Title | Page 14 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 9 working with African American civil rights and Black Power groups. Part of the discussion I engage, then, is the ways in which Chicano/as learned from African American liberation struggles and refashioned various ideologies and strategies to suit their particular experiences as Chicano/as. In Chapter Two, I examine the issue of citizenship in relation to African American and Chicano/a experiences in the United States. Here, I explore the role of language to combat racist subjugation and to rhetorically construct both identity and community for these two groups. My aim is to demonstrate the places where the women writers of the period were not diametrically opposed to some of the language of the movements. This is a crucial point – for if the women found nothing of use in the movements, why were they members of the organizations at all? Following Stuart Hall’s “imagined communities,” I demonstrate the usefulness of ethnic or race-based liberation movements during this era. I also discuss the limitations of this paradigm, particularly for women and mixed-race peoples. Using Nikhil Pal Singh’s idea of an “ideal national subject,” I trace the ways African Americans and Chicano/as have reacted to (and fought against) the limitations of citizenship enacted by the U.S. over time. Chapter Three is dedicated to ethnic/racial nationalist discourses within the Black Arts/Black Power and Chicano movements. In |
