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81	Chicana Literature: A Feminist Perspective of Gloria Anzaldua's Identity Politics / Chicana Literature: A Feminist Perspective of Gloria Anzaldua's Identity Politics Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza January 2017 (has links) Chicana Literature: A Feminist Perspective of Gloria Anzaldúa's Identity Politics Doctoral Thesis Mgr. et Mgr. Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová 2017 ABSTRACT In the analyses executed in the present doctoral thesis, Chicana literary production emerges as a complex example of a strategic and reflexive instrumentalization of literature in the form of a political and activist tool contributing to Chicanas' gender and cultural emancipation on the one hand. On the other hand, within the Chicana/o context, literature is employed for perfecting the politics of recognition of the marginalized nation typified by the specificity of its geographic, cultural, and social location on the U.S.-Mexico border where a plethora of socially constructed categories interact and intersect. The doctoral thesis further provides a gender analysis of literary representations of Chicana/o lived experience by Chicana feminist writers in general and by Gloria Anzaldúa in particular, and investigates how these representations help shape feminist thought not only in relation to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, but within and beyond the United States. Moreover, the thesis supplies an interpretation of Anzaldúa's reconceptualization of the border concept as a pertinent means for comprehending Chicanas'/os' socio-cultural context and for forging a...
82	Television Viewing and Latino Stereotypes Rivera, Gustavo 01 January 2021 (has links) Over the course of a modern lifetime, television viewing accounts for a significant amount of information taken in by viewers. Within that consumption lies a potential problem. Viewers may learn erroneous messages about people and the world. Since television has characterized Latinos in ways that have emphasized cultural stereotypes, viewers may learn to perceive them in a corresponding manner. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 403 students from five universities and two community colleges located in Northern California. The respondents completed a seventy-one item questionnaire. Five key variables were utilized to measure relationships between them. The key variables included: learning about Latinos from television, positive perceptions of Latinos, negative Latino stereotypes, willingness to communicate with Latinos, and self-esteem. Frequency, correlation, and regression analyses indicated that there was significant interplay between the key variables. The results revealed an association between learning about Latinos from television and negative Latino stereotypes. Similarly, lower willingness to communicate with Latinos was associated with negative Latino stereotypes. However, higher willingness to communicate with Latinos was associated with positive perceptions of Latinos. Likewise, willingness to communicate with Latinos was positively associated with self-esteem. A multiple regression analysis indicated that learning about Latinos from television and lower willingness to communicate with Latinos were predictors of negative Latino stereotypes. Conversely, a second regression analysis indicated that higher willingness to communicate with Latinos and positive interaction with Latinos were predictors of positive perceptions of Latinos. Mass communication Latinos Stereotypes Ethnocentrism Willingness to Communicate Self-esteem Broadcast and Video Studies Chicana/o Studies Communication Mass Communication Social and Behavioral Sciences
83	Un pie aquí y otro allá: Translation, Globalization, and Hybridization in the New World (B)Order Jimenez-bellver, Jorge 01 January 2010 (has links) (PDF) This thesis explores the role of translation in the production and manipulation of identities in the contemporary Americas as exemplified in the work of Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Underscoring the instrumentality of borders vis-à-vis dominant constructions of identity and in connection with questions of language, race, and citizenship, I argue that translation not only functions as an agent of hegemonic superiority and oppression, but also as a locus of plurivocity and hybridization. Drawing from the concepts “continuous variation” (Deleuze and Guattari [1987] 2004), “coloniality of power” (Mignolo 2000), and “hybridization” (García-Canclini 1995), I discuss the connection of translation with three main topics: monolingualism, globalization, and racial hybridity. First, I discuss the influence that the dominant ideology of the nation-state has exerted on the way translation has been conceptualized since translation studies emerged as a field. Then I turn to colonial legacies in the Americas and the role of translation in situations of language hegemony as shaped by forces of assimilation and diversification. Finally, I look at translation as a crucial agent for the production and legitimization of Latin American identity throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Viewing translation as a performative and transformative activity, I critique a number of contemporary approaches to translation and I point to new understandings of translation as a cluster concept (Tymoczko 2007) in order to expand translation theory and practice beyond Western paradigms. Translation identity coloniality borders language contact Guillermo Gómez-Peña Comparative literature Chicana/o Studies Comparative Literature Latin American Languages and Societies Latin American Literature
84	Katherine Anne Porter : a change in her Mexican perspective Paris-Fernandez, Mario 01 January 1975 (has links) (PDF) Katherine Anne Porter regards Mexico as her "familiar country." lndeed, Mexico in the art of this gifted American writer is more important than generally believed for, as William Nance says, "Mexico entered into her earliest work as both motivating force and subject matter." Miss Porter has traveled extensively in Mexico and lived there on several occasions. Her highly developed artistic sensibility has allowed her to gain more than a mere familiarity with the country, its inhabitants, and its history. Naturally, her deep knowledge of the culture is reflected in her artistic production, part of which is devoted exclusively to Mexico. This thesis presents a brief study of Miss Porter's fiction which deals with that country: it attempts to demonstrate a change in the author's perspective of it, evinced in those stories that have Mexico as a setting: namely, it shows how Miss Porter starts out deeply involved with the culture in the stories of ''Maria Concepcion", "The Martyr", and "Virgin Violeta", and how, slowly, the theme of alienation evolves in the stories "Flowering Judas',' "That Tree", and "Hacienda", interpreted as Miss Porter's disillusionment with the failure of the Mexican Revolution. This study intends to contribute to the field of Inter-American Studies in the sense that it deals directly with inter-cultural relations within the North American continent and with the understanding between cultures, seen through the eyes of a most accomplished writer. If there is a person who could be called truly inter-American, Miss Porter would be the perfect model, because she embodies the ideals of understanding between the different cultures of the North American continent. Katherine Anne Porter Mexico Literature Arts and Humanities Chicana/o Studies Comparative Literature History Latin American Languages and Societies Literature in English, North America Other English Language and Literature Social and Behavioral Sciences
85	Erotics as Decolonization and Pathway to Spiritual Activism in Chicana Literature: Demetria Martínez's Mother Tongue and Alma Luz Villanueva's Naked Ladies Walker, Wendy L. 11 September 2012 (has links) No description available. American Literature Gender Studies Latin American Literature Literature Spirituality Chicana sexuality erotics spirituality spiritual activism sexual decolonization bodily inscription Malinche Guadalupe
86	Planting the "Uprooted Ones:" La Raza in the Midwest, 1970 - 1979 Wiggins, Leticia Rose 20 December 2016 (has links) No description available. History Latin American Studies Regional Studies Religion Womens Studies Multicultural Education Modern History Minority and Ethnic Groups Latin American History Geography Gender Ethnic Studies Chicana Chicano Latino Latina University of Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana Midwest Julian Samora Catholicism Chicano Movement Midwest Council of La Raza MWCLR 1970s Ricardo Parra Olga Villa Institutional Activism Chicana Movement Aztlan
87	Wandering Sagebrush Cyrus, Andrea 16 December 2016 (has links) Wandering Sagebrush is a collection of eight unified short stories. The main themes of the thesis include: the struggle of identity and how one finds the people and places to call family and home. The stories focus on family we make, family we lose, family we choose, and the decisions one makes in the name of family. family friends identity bi-cultural health concerns Southwest Chicana/o Studies Creative Writing Latina/o Studies Native American Studies Nonfiction
88	The Legalization of Street Vending in Los Angeles: Exploring the Impact on Vendors and their Livelihoods Alpuche Caceres, Karen 01 January 2019 (has links) This thesis aims to unpack the impact the legalization of street vending and the subsequent regulation had on sidewalk vendors. Although legalization occurred state-wide through Senate Bill 946 in September of 2017, the rules and regulations for vending were passed at a city-level, and I am focusing on the City of Los Angeles specifically. Through interviews with government officials, non-profit partners and advocates, and vendors from different parts of the City, I analyze information around the policy itself, its history, and the impact it has and is expected to have on vendors and their businesses. While vendors have been central to advocacy and the policy process, the creation of a permitting system in the City of Los Angeles has been less transparent. By interviewing stakeholders, relying on existing economic, political, and sociological literature, and gathering opinions from vendors themselves, I develop various policy recommendations to further empower vendors and integrate them into Los Angeles’ formal economy. I recommend a permitting model that is backward-mapped and stems from the needs of and feedback from vendors in order for it to be more aligned with the goals and needs of vendors themselves. entrepreneurs street vending los angeles microenterprise policy evaluation street vendors American Politics Chicana/o Studies Economic Policy Economic Theory Growth and Development Labor Economics Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation Public Economics Public Policy Social Policy Urban Studies
89	TWO CULTURES, ONE IDENTITY: BICULTURALISM OF YOUNG MEXICAN AMERICANS Salazar, Janela Aida 01 January 2019 (has links) The purpose of this study was to explore the daily life of the younger generation of Mexican Americans through a phenomenology design. Specifically, in regard to how the culture-sharing pattern of biculturalism is reflected in their lives and the way they construct their bicultural identity. The study utilized rich qualitative data to paint a clear and descriptive picture of the internal process of biculturalism within eight Mexican American college students. Ultimately, the data analysis aimed to collect and reflect their voices and the stories. This was done through three distinct data methods that complemented each other: interviews (oral), photo elicitation (visual), and document analysis (written). Results indicate that, the way bicultural individuals organize and respond to their culture in terms of behavior and cognition, is independent from the feelings they experience while engaging in cultural frame switching. No matter how well the participants are able to organize their dual cultures and compartmentalize them in their life, they still struggle with conflicting and opposing feelings. Nonetheless, even though their cultures and ideologies can clash at times and feel contradictory, this young generation can still manage to respond and function in both cultures, but to varying degrees. Biculturalism Mexican Americans Emergent Adulthood Cultural Identity Immigration Chicana/o Studies Latin American Languages and Societies Latin American Literature Latina/o Studies Race and Ethnicity Social and Cultural Anthropology Sociology of Culture Spanish Linguistics
90	Social violence, social healing : the merging of the political and the spiritual in Chicano/a literary production Lopez, Christina Garcia 02 July 2012 (has links) This dissertation argues that spiritual and religious worldviews (i.e. Mexican Catholicism, indigenous spiritualities, and popular religion) have historically intersected with social and political realities in the development of Mexican origin communities of the United States. More specifically, as creative writers from these communities have endeavored to express and represent Mexican American experience, they have consistently engaged these intersections of the spiritual and the material. While Chicano/a criticism has often overlooked, and in some ways dismissed, the significant role which spiritual and religious discourses have played in the political development of Mexican American communities, I examine how the works of creative writers pose important questions about the role of religious faith and spirituality in healing the wounds of social violence. By placing literary texts in conversation with scholarship from multiple disciplines, this project links literary narratives to their historical, social, and political frameworks, and ultimately endeavors to situate literary production as an expressive cultural product. Historical and regional in approach, the dissertation examines diverse literary narratives penned by writers of Mexican descent between the 1930s and the current decade. Selected textual pairings recall pivotal moments and relations in the history of Mexico, America, and their shared geographical borderlands. Through the lens of religion and spirituality, a broad array of social discourses emerges, including: gender and sexuality, landscape and memory, nation-formation, race and ethnicity, popular traditions, and material culture. / text Chicano Chicana Mexican American Latino Latina Religion Spirituality Literature Novel Narrative History Politics Social justice Cultural studies Migration Labor Transnationalism Ethnicity Race Folk Healing Violence Border Gender Landscape Nation

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