CHICANO 10A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Chicano Nationalism, Community Organizing

• School: UCLA
• Department: Chicana and Chicano Studies
• Course: CHICANO 10A
• Professor: J O H N S O N

Document Summary

Coming back to the 1960"s and early 70"s: First lens views the self pushing forward from the social position of a marginalized other. Second lens focuses on how the dominant social group describes and represents marginalized others to drive them backward toward subordination. Extraordinary social perspective to recognize gaps in hegemonic power structure. Distinctive vantage point from which to see dominant subjectives and their relations to others. Internalized oppression: a consequence of oppression that helps maintain inequality. Coming to believe the dominant messages and images that refer to us as inferior. Racial effects of poverty and isolation on indigenous communities. Chicanxs are colonized population in the united states (dominated by outsiders, much as colonial subjects in the third world, with indigenous values and ways of life destroyed) Education relevant to struggles for racial justice to home and abroad. Programs to support student and community organizing.