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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
Little H
Big H
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