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To Conquer the Conquerors: Nation-Building and Chicano/a’s
Shifting Identities
If we understand African American rhetoric as containing an
undercurrent based on a history of slavery, we can also understand
Chicano rhetorical strategies as containing the undercurrent of conquest.
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo almost instantly created “Mexican
Americans” yet the meaning of this new term was (and continues to be) in
dispute. For members of the Chicano Movement, the 1848 treaty became
a rallying point. What it meant to be “Mexican American,” the cultural
legacies of Mexico and the relationship between people of Mexican
descent in the U.S. to Mexico were all issues that had to addressed. At the
heart of these discussions was the border – a physical barrier between
people of Mexican descent from land that they still had ties to, a space
that many crossed and re-crossed throughout their lives, and a
metaphoric space of between-ness that mirrored the liminal status of
people of Mexican descent in the U.S.
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 79 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 74 To Conquer the Conquerors: Nation-Building and Chicano/a’s Shifting Identities If we understand African American rhetoric as containing an undercurrent based on a history of slavery, we can also understand Chicano rhetorical strategies as containing the undercurrent of conquest. The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo almost instantly created “Mexican Americans” yet the meaning of this new term was (and continues to be) in dispute. For members of the Chicano Movement, the 1848 treaty became a rallying point. What it meant to be “Mexican American,” the cultural legacies of Mexico and the relationship between people of Mexican descent in the U.S. to Mexico were all issues that had to addressed. At the heart of these discussions was the border – a physical barrier between people of Mexican descent from land that they still had ties to, a space that many crossed and re-crossed throughout their lives, and a metaphoric space of between-ness that mirrored the liminal status of people of Mexican descent in the U.S. |
