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CH S 100 – Chicana/o Culture Prof. Hernández Study Guide for midterm Fall 2013

Essay Questions

1. The concept of culture has been a preoccupation of our course in the first six weeks. Analyze the relationship between culture, history and power. How do Gómez Quiñones, Anzaldúa and Paz examine the concept of culture from the prism of race, gender, sexuality and power? How do Gómez Quiñones and Anzaldúa assess culture as a tool for domination?

2. Defined as a practice of domination, colonialism is a consequence of the Age of Exploration. The theory of post-colonialism examines the cultural legacies of colonialism and of imperialism in terms of the human consequences of controlling a country and establishing settlers for the economic exploitation of the native people and their land. Analyze how colonialism and post- colonialism help us better understand Chicana/o Culture in terms of identity and diversity?

ID Terms.

1. Culture 2. Malintizi 3. Aztecs 4. Hernan Cortes 5. Quinto Sol 6. Mexico Profundo 7. Gloria Anzaldúa 8. Encomienda 9. Repartimiento 10. Hacienda 11. Conquest 12. Syncretism 13. Spiritual Conquest 14. Christopher Columbus 15. Columbian Moment 16. Military Conquest 17. Post-colonialism 18. Organic Intellectual 19. Mestizaje 20. Castas