Narrative / Story
Eurocentrism
Focusing on European culture/history to the exclusion of the wider view of the world
White supremacy
System that maintains legal/political/economic privilege for whites; the belief white is superior than the other
Ethnicity
Cultural and geographical factors, including nationality, ancestry, religion, and history
What is Chicano identity?
A political attitude that embraces Mexican and indigenous roots
What are Chinampas?
floating gardens
Master Narrative vs. Counter Narrative
Master narratives are stories the majority tell of an event/person, counter narratives critique the master narrative
Why are groups radicalized?
Mechanism to control, disempower, and exploit non white racial groups
Culture
Knowledge, beliefs, values, history, artistic expression, and language
Pluralism
Individual ethnic groups have a right to exist with each other on their own terms, retain their unique cultural heritage
What did Coatilcue represent?
Mother Earth
Majoritarian storytelling
Method of recounting the experiences and perspectives of those with racial/social privilege
Origins of Race
Invention in the early 1600s during slavery and indigenous genocide
Nationality
Refers to citizen status. Where you were born.
Assimilation
The process by which the minority group comes to resemble those of the dominant group
Who was Hernan Cortes?
Spanish conquistador associated with the fall of the Mexica/Aztec
Majoritarian vs counter storytelling
Stories of those with racial/social privilege vs stories of those on societies margin
Examples of pseudoscience justifying racism
Theory of evolution, survival of the fittest, cranial measuring
Race
Social construct that categorizes people based on their ancestry, history, and physical traits (skin, color, and hair)
Acculturation
Occurs when the minority culture changes but is still able to retain unique cultural characteristics
as many as 80 million
Functions of Counter Story
Challenge dominant narrative; nurtures peoples knowledge, memory and resistance; transforms education (must list at least 2 of 3)
What is critical race theory?
Examines everyday racism, institutional racism, and power structures that reinforce white privilege
Race vs ethnicity
Race- Socially and politically constructed (categorization of people)
Ethnicity- cultural and geographical factors
Anglo-conformity
Theory that immigrants should learn English, adapt to norms, values and institutions of Anglo American society
Name an immediate change of the arrival of the Spaniards
Cortes orders destruction of all religious symbols/temples and replaces them with Christianity; distributed land among soldiers, many women are raped which brings the birth of the mestizo people;
400 thousand manuscripts burned, 500 temples and 20 thousand idols destroyed