GE CLST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ageism, Nuclear Family, Intersectionality
18 Oct 2016
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Lecture 5 | 10/6/16 | Goeman
Reading Strategy: What materials do we see Miranda using in the text? How do these
different forms of materials tell different parts of the story in California? How does she
engage the primary materials?
Intersectionality: Structural, Political, and Representational
- Can be defined as the study or concept of discriminative or oppressive institutions
on disenfranchised groups or minorities, and the way these groups are
interconnected. They theory of intersectionality is based on the concept that
oppressive institutions within a society, such as racism, ageism, sexism, and
homophobia, do not act independently, but are instead interrelated and
continuously shaped by one another
- Not about multiple identities, but how those identities meet and cause harm
- Law had structural intersectionalty issue, black women could not seek legal
justice (white women hired first, then black men, then black women, black
women fired first, could not take legal action because still had women and black
employees)
Questions for Papers
- What are some of the literary and research strategies Miranda incorporates to
decolonize the history of California Indians? How does she give expression to her
felt experience of being a California Indian? What are the elements of
dehumanization that we see take place in Miranda? How are the stories
intersectional?
Miranda
- Titles the first chapter the “End of the World”, upsets the paradigm of the
Doctrine of Discovery (pg. 135), by telling the reality that it’s not the beginning
of a new era, but the end of the lives of many and their era. The land wasn’t just
for the taking; the people were enslaved and killed. Foreshadow the murder and
horror, decimation of this group of people who are already living there
- Structure of Bad Indians
o Opens with her story and nuclear family
o Throughout novel, slippages in the temporal occur and the book extends
both vertically and horizontally
o Chronologically ordered
▪ The End of the World: Missionization (1776-1836)
▪ Bridges: Post-Secularization (1836-1900)
▪ The Light From Carissa Plains: Revitalization (1900-1961)
▪ Teheyapami Achiski: Home (1961-Present)
- How does Miranda’s novel disrupt the “coherent narrative”, and why is this
especially important in the case of California Indians?
- Racial in parents romance
- Hierarchies of class and social status in early days of parents meeting, value
meted out in relation to their racialization
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Document Summary
Can be defined as the study or concept of discriminative or oppressive institutions on disenfranchised groups or minorities, and the way these groups are interconnected. They theory of intersectionality is based on the concept that oppressive institutions within a society, such as racism, ageism, sexism, and homophobia, do not act independently, but are instead interrelated and continuously shaped by one another. Not about multiple identities, but how those identities meet and cause harm. Law had structural intersectionalty issue, black women could not seek legal justice (white women hired first, then black men, then black women, black women fired first, could not take legal action because still had women and black employees) Titles the first chapter the end of the world , upsets the paradigm of the. 135), by telling the reality that it"s not the beginning of a new era, but the end of the lives of many and their era.
