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A Life of Mixed Feelings: Joann Cardenas Enos

Joann Cardenas Enos

Minnesota rootsLower flats of the East SideChicana

Significance of Chicano history

The shaping of a person’s character and understanding of ethnic history is not created exclusively through the events of the epicenter.

Instead what matters comes from a continuum of experience with impacts on the familial, local, and national levels.

She exemplifies the importance of a counter narrative to the master that is Chicano History as well as US History

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Ties to Chican@ and US Master History

Experiences of Anti-Mexican American Sentiment

Social deconstruction of heritage through public education

Ties to Chican@ and US Master History

Connection to US movements and military actions: Forced displacement

From the flats and Swede Hollow to the I-94 freeway system

Militancy in the Chicano Movement Vietnam War

Living in a World of Duality

Feeling of Chicano significance here in Minnesota mixed with feeling of unbreakable glass ceiling

Distrusting and disliking Anglos as well as running for public office to represent them

Hope for the future of all in MN and sentiment that the next generation is not learning how to coexist

My Perspective

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Race in the East Side

Payne Phalen District Dayton's Bluff District