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Chapter Four
Mixed Race / Mestizaje: The Place of Mixed-Race
People in Ethnic/Racial Nationalist Movements
The place of women and of mixed-race people within the Black
Power/Black Arts and Chicano movements presents a particularly
interesting point of conversation. By linking women and mixed-race
people I do not mean to ignore mixed-race men, however, women writers
of this era – particularly lesbian and/or feminist women – offer some
meaningful critiques of ethnic/racial nationalism that presupposes a
homogeneous population. What is most interesting here are the
differences between the responses of black women and Chicanas to this
issue within their movements. For many in the Black Arts/Black Power
movement (male and female), old notions of blackness still held true.
Just as the larger society created a rule of hypodescent, blacks themselves
often subscribed to this idea and used it forge community between blacks
of varying social and economic classes, as well as geographic locations and
genders. Chicano/as, on the other hand, had a long history of identifying
as a mixed-race population that was deployed in very specific ways during
the Chicano Movement. Language use and an adherence to “barriology”
thus became signifiers of the new Chicano consciousness.
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 149 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 144 Chapter Four Mixed Race / Mestizaje: The Place of Mixed-Race People in Ethnic/Racial Nationalist Movements The place of women and of mixed-race people within the Black Power/Black Arts and Chicano movements presents a particularly interesting point of conversation. By linking women and mixed-race people I do not mean to ignore mixed-race men, however, women writers of this era – particularly lesbian and/or feminist women – offer some meaningful critiques of ethnic/racial nationalism that presupposes a homogeneous population. What is most interesting here are the differences between the responses of black women and Chicanas to this issue within their movements. For many in the Black Arts/Black Power movement (male and female), old notions of blackness still held true. Just as the larger society created a rule of hypodescent, blacks themselves often subscribed to this idea and used it forge community between blacks of varying social and economic classes, as well as geographic locations and genders. Chicano/as, on the other hand, had a long history of identifying as a mixed-race population that was deployed in very specific ways during the Chicano Movement. Language use and an adherence to “barriology” thus became signifiers of the new Chicano consciousness. |
