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"Shakin' up" race and gender : intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995)

Title: "Shakin' up" race and gender : intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995) / Marta E. Sánchez.
Author: Sánchez, Marta Ester.
Publication: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.

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Description

xvi, 202 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

The second phase of the civil rights movement (1965-1973) was a pivotal period in the development of ethnic groups in the United States. In the years since then, new generations have asked new questions to cast light on this watershed era. No longer is it productive to consider only the differences between ethnic groups; we must also study them in relation to one another and to U.S. mainstream society. In "Shakin' Up" Race and Gender, Marta E. Sanchez creates an intercultural frame to study the historical and cultural connections among Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and Chicanos/as since the 1960s. Her frame opens up the black/white binary that dominated the 1960s and 1970s. It reveals the hidden yet real ties that connected ethnics of color and "white" ethnics in a shared intercultural history. By using key literary works published during this time, Sanchez reassesses and refutes the unflattering portrayals of ethnics by three leading intellectuals (Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis) who wrote about Chicanos, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans. She links their implicit misogyny to the trope of La Malinche from Chicano culture and shows how specific characteristics of this trope-enslavement, alleged betrayal, and cultural negotiation-are also present in African American and Puerto Rican cultures. Sanchez employs the trope to restore the agency denied to these groups. Intercultural contact-encounters between peoples of distinct ethnic groups-is the theme of this book.

Series Statement

Chicana matters series

Uniform Title

Chicana matters series

Alternative Title

"Shaking up" race and gender
"Shakin' up" race & gender

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-188) and index.

Contents

Intercultural connections -- "In bed" with La Malinche : stories of "family" à la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis -- La Malinche at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American cultures : Piri Thomas and Down these mean streets -- La Malinche : shuffling the Puerto Rican border in Spanish and Black Harlem -- Of nutshells, frogs, and men in Manchild in the promised land -- Grandma knows best : the women in Manchild in the promised land -- Overcoming self-loathing, learning to love brownness : Oscar Zeta Acosta and the autobiography of a brown buffalo -- Epilogue : La Malinche comes home.

ISBN

0292706936
9780292706934
029270965X
9780292709652

LCCN

2004030274

OCLC

ocm57422335
57422335
SCSB-1378825

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library