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CH S 245 - History of Americas Fall 2023 Christopher Dominguez Worksheet ome (#2): Week 12 Xican@ Studies 245 “Introduction” Brown Eyed Children of the Sun by George Mariscal pgs. 1-24. ● What is one of the main objectives of the book Brown Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement , according to the author Dr. George Mariscal? It is to map the complex ideological field that was the Chicano Movement of the Vietnam War era. Also reminds us that the so-called sixties were about more than "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" or middle-class white youth adopting alternative lifestyles, or even the African American struggle for civil rights. In ethnic Mexican communities, the period between 1965-1975 produced dramatic changes. ● What did Richard Nixon hold about the Mexican-American community in 1965? For cynical observers of the Mexican-American community such as Richard Nixon, who once remarked that “the Mexicans” would never rebel like the blacks, the Chicano Movement came as a surprising and disturbing development. ● What did Helen Rowman in the 1968 Commission on Civil Rights say about La Raza or the Mexican-American community? Helen Rowan described the changes taking place in both the urban and rural areas of the southwest: "the level of organization, of awareness, and of identity is constantly rising...In fact, every aspect necessary to the development and sustaining of a movement is being activated and, most importantly, obtaining financial support. ● What did the New York Times report on April 20, 1969, about five million Mexicans? Reporter Homer Bigart wrote: "Five million Mexican Americans, the nation's second-largest minority, are stirring with a new militancy. The ethnic stereotype that the Chicanos are too drowsy and too docile to carry a sustained fight against poverty and discrimination is bending under fresh assault.
● What did a Caucasian activist tell Dr. George Mariscal and Dr. Carlos Muñoz about the Vietnam War at a symposium held in Oakland in 2000 on the Vietnam War’s impact on the state of California? Caucasian activists from the period with exclamations such as “Oh I had no idea Chicanos protested against the war”. ● Which organizations and/or victories made possible the emergence of a more militant ethnicity-based politics that spread throughout the Southwest during the 1960s and early 1970s, according to George Mariscal? With the creation of the Mexican-American Political Association (MAPA) in 1959, the formation of the Politica Association of Spanish-Speaking Organizations (PASSO) and the activism of the Viva Kennedy clubs in 1960, the appearance of Cesar Chavez National Farm Workers Association in 1962, Reies Lopez Tijerina's founding of the Alianza Federal de las Mercedes in 1963, and the electoral victories in Crystal City, Texas, that same year, a more militant ethnicity-based politics emerged throughout the Southwest. ● George Mariscal: “At the heart of the diverse collective projects that arose in the U.S. was a critique of traditional ___liberalism____ that exposed the contradictions and the hypocrisies of a system that had promised equality to all groups but had refused to deliver it.” ● What have conservative efforts in recent years been able to do to the gains made during the Civil Rights and/or Movement era? On the domestic front in the United States, concerted efforts by conservatives successfully rolled back the meager gains made by disenfranchised groups during the Civil Rights era. ● “In the media and the universities, revisionist historians recast the liberatory moment of the 1960s as _foolish__ and __neglected___ . Many portrayed the Chicano Movement as a flawed and failed experiment.” ● What has become the “cucui” or the bogeyman in recent years and why, according to Dr. George Mariscal? I began to notice the ways in which at academic conferences and even at the level of everyday community and campus politics something called "Chicano nationalism" had become the cucui or bogeyman against which those professionals who had achieved successful careers (a success inconceivable without the Movement's contributions) constructed their public and professional identities.
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