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Analysis Of Chicana Power By Maylei Blackwell

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Maylei Blackwell is the author of the book Chicana power, a book that is a historical narrative. Blackwell is now an assistant professor in the Cesar E. Chavez department of Chicano studies and women studies at UCLA. Chicana power is a book that is based on women’s study in the Chicano movement during the 1960s and 1970’s. It talks about the important process of Chicana feminism within students and community organizations that took place throughout California.
Maylei Blackwell argues the exclusion of females in the movement. Men having male dominance made it more difficult for women to be “socially integrated”. She also examines the struggles and issues that arose over gender and sexuality within the Chicano movements. Chicanos engaged …show more content…

Also, Blackwell develops several theoretical concepts, among which is her notion of “retrofitted memory,” which is her name for the historicizing strategies Las Hijas used to counter the erasure of Chicana political subjectivities from the movement. Chicana power is one of the best books to read because it is not only a book that invested in the story telling of Chicana activists, who have challenged racism, sexism, homophobia and the structures of segregation, inequality etc. She pushes readers beyond. Chicana feminism wasn’t merely a response to the sexism of Chicano nationalism or racism of women’s movement. Highlighting the many iterations of feminism and the “adoption of different strategies to be heard” . Blackwell brings many stories in effort to reimagine historical moments. Another strength in the book is that Blackwell held interviews from students that wanted they’re voice heard which made her research more

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