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88
Joaquín.
In a country that has wiped out
all my history,
stifled all my pride.
In a country that has placed a
different weight of indignity upon
my
age
old
burdened back.
Inferiority
is the new load . . .66
Although, as Ian Haney Lopez notes, “I am Joaquín/ Yo Soy Joaquín”
does not evince the “racial conception of Chicano identity” that would
develop later, Gonzales does clearly present the issues of Chicanos in
relation to the U.S. state.67 Despite the long history he presents in the
poem, the present for Chicanos is bounded by U.S. imperialism and
racism. By linking the present moment with the history of struggle of
Mexican people against tyranny (at the hands of the Spanish, for
example), Gonzales ultimately presents a future of possibility. This
moment, then, is but one episode that will pass – though not without
struggle:
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 93 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 88 Joaquín. In a country that has wiped out all my history, stifled all my pride. In a country that has placed a different weight of indignity upon my age old burdened back. Inferiority is the new load . . .66 Although, as Ian Haney Lopez notes, “I am Joaquín/ Yo Soy Joaquín” does not evince the “racial conception of Chicano identity” that would develop later, Gonzales does clearly present the issues of Chicanos in relation to the U.S. state.67 Despite the long history he presents in the poem, the present for Chicanos is bounded by U.S. imperialism and racism. By linking the present moment with the history of struggle of Mexican people against tyranny (at the hands of the Spanish, for example), Gonzales ultimately presents a future of possibility. This moment, then, is but one episode that will pass – though not without struggle: |
