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Intro (Akila)

1. Provides an overview of the main facets of study that Blackwell sought to cover,

introducing the socio-political environment which gave birth to the Chicana identity and

subsequent political movement.

a. Identifies Chicana feminism and one of its pioneers, Anna NeitoGomez and her

organization Hija’s de Cuauhtemoc  [kwauˈtemok] 

as the architects of the Chicanapolitical struggle.

b. She acknowledges that the theory of intersectionality and multiple subjectivities

has its roots in the political views of WOCF movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s,

and the contributions of NietoGomez and Hija’s de Cuahtemoc towards this

development.

c. Formed in response to the marginalzation of women during the Chicano student

movement and whose struggle is studied through what Blackwell calls “retrofitted

memory”

2. Retrofitted Memories:

a. The practice and restructuring of historical narratives which are largelypatriarchial and colonial in order to capture the poltical contributions of women of

color.

b. This is accomplished by drawing from suppressed knowledge and studying the

often ignored aspects of historical narratives, retrofitting these into “new forms of

political subjectivity”

c. Chicana Power seeks to uses this concept to ask why the Chicana feminism

movement is not acknowledged within the scope of the broader Chicano political

organizatons of this time period.

d. Anna NietoGomez and Hija’s de Cuahtemoc were one of the first Chicana

feminists movements to organize, and were instrumental in the formation ofChicana feminist political rhetoric and values

e. Their contributions extended through their contact and mobilzation of Chicana

feminist movements in Los Angeles

f. Integral to Blackwell’s history, is an examination of not only the Chicana feminist

movement, centered around Hija’s de Cuahtemoc but also the narrative

mechanisms of writing history which sought to erase their contributions

i. these mechanisms can be traced to those who write the lasting narratives

ii. Blackwell seeks to reveal that the writing of history is not an objective

exercise, and is interlinked with the prevailing political ideologies of the

time through the study of HdC

3. Prelude:

a.

Chapter 1 (Akila) Historical Writing and Righting

● Blackwell’s goal is to contrast the typical written history of the Chicano movement and

women’s movements with the oral histories of the members of Hija’s de Cuahtemoc

[kwauatemok]

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