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Chicano/a activists, while endeavoring to come together as “one people
with a common heritage,” nonetheless had a variety of approaches to this
goal. The Brown Berets, for example, offer an interesting subject for
analysis and are particularly useful for my purposes.74
Modeled in part after the Black Panther Party, the Brown Berets
demonstrate the ways in which activists of the era moved between
organizations and movements, gathering information and experience and
forging alliances between seemingly disparate groups. Again, Pulido is
instructive. Quoting a Chicano activist, she writes:
I started going to UMAS meetings and identifying with the
Black student movement, what was happening in the South,
SNCC, the Black Panther Party, Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap
Brown. So I started talking to these older Chicano guys [in
MASA] about Stokely and H. Rap Brown, but they weren’t
into it. I saw the difference between them and the Young
Citizens for Chicano Action [the predecessor of the Brown
Berets], and I started hanging out with them. That’s when I
split from more traditional student politics and into more
community activism.75
The confluence of ideologies between the Black Panther Party and the
Brown Berets was visible on a variety of fronts. Like the Panthers, the
Brown Berets (as the name suggests) adopted a paramilitary fashion that
included the wearing of berets. They also policed the police in their
neighborhoods, hoping to curtail the widespread police abuse that
characterized much of the interaction between Chicanos and law
enforcement (just as it did with blacks and law enforcement). Further,
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 46 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 41 Chicano/a activists, while endeavoring to come together as “one people with a common heritage,” nonetheless had a variety of approaches to this goal. The Brown Berets, for example, offer an interesting subject for analysis and are particularly useful for my purposes.74 Modeled in part after the Black Panther Party, the Brown Berets demonstrate the ways in which activists of the era moved between organizations and movements, gathering information and experience and forging alliances between seemingly disparate groups. Again, Pulido is instructive. Quoting a Chicano activist, she writes: I started going to UMAS meetings and identifying with the Black student movement, what was happening in the South, SNCC, the Black Panther Party, Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown. So I started talking to these older Chicano guys [in MASA] about Stokely and H. Rap Brown, but they weren’t into it. I saw the difference between them and the Young Citizens for Chicano Action [the predecessor of the Brown Berets], and I started hanging out with them. That’s when I split from more traditional student politics and into more community activism.75 The confluence of ideologies between the Black Panther Party and the Brown Berets was visible on a variety of fronts. Like the Panthers, the Brown Berets (as the name suggests) adopted a paramilitary fashion that included the wearing of berets. They also policed the police in their neighborhoods, hoping to curtail the widespread police abuse that characterized much of the interaction between Chicanos and law enforcement (just as it did with blacks and law enforcement). Further, |
