Needless to say, the views here are strictly my own, as are my inevitable errors.
As ever, I am nothing without Tor André. And I will never be the same since the loss of my beloved and incomparably devoted cat Henry, who was within arm’s reach every day for seventeen years as I sat and wrote.
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Index
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Abelove, Henry, 199
abortion:
as feminist issue, 67, 120, 306
and intersectionality, 305–6
Academic Questions, 343
ACLU, and Jacobowitz case, 333
ACT UP, 218
Acuña, Rodolfo, 239, 244, 252–57
on changing Chicano/a attitudes, 252–53, 262–63
on forming alliances, 249
Occupied America, 240–41, 252, 256–57, 259–63
on poverty, 261
on pre-Columbian civilizations, 253–55
and totalitarian communism, 259–60, 279, 283
on U.S.–Mexican relations, 255–56
Adam, Barry D., 200
Adams, John and Abigail, 326
Adorno, Theodor, 24
affirmative action, 127, 172
African American literature, 127–31, 146–47
African Americans:
and Black Studies, see Black Studies
and double consciousness, 130, 133, 144
Talented Tenth, 129, 151, 152
“age of piety,” 10
“age of secular humanism,” 10–12
AIDS, 189, 202, 218, 266–70
Alaniz, Yolanda, 279–80
Alder, Kristin Marie, 50–52, 53, 76
Almontaser, Debbie, 298–99
Alsultany, Evelyn, 299
Althusser, Louis, 24
Alurista (Heredía), 234–35, 236
Alvarez, Pablo, 265–67, 269
American Dream, 251, 253, 262, 276–77
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), 296
Angelou, Maya, 107, 139
Anthony, Susan B., 55
anti-Americanism, 97–99
Anzaldúa, Gloria, 223, 285
and Chicano Studies, 241, 247
and Queer Studies, 224
This Bridge Called My Back, 45, 241
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 77
Aragón de Shepro, Theresa, 239
Arenas, Reinaldo, 268
Aristotle, 217
Armstrong, Louis, 150, 152
Asante, Molefi Kete, 141, 154
Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW), 343, 345
Atencio, Tomás, 240
Atlanta Compromise (1895), 128–29
authority, rejection of, 84
Aztlán:
dream of, 249, 250, 278, 279–80
manifesto of, 234–35
new nation of, 232
Aztlán: Chicano Journal of the Social Sciences and the Arts, 238, 250, 284–86
Bacon, Linda, Health at Every Size, 310
Bad Writing Contest, 216–18
Baker, Carrie, 113–16
Baker, Houston A. Jr., 137–38
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 144, 146
Balch, Steve, 340–43
Baldwin, James, 121, 149
Barale, Michèle Aina, 199
Barber, Amy, 80–83, 307
Barbour, Nancy, 106, 107
Barnard, Ian, 223–26
Barnum, P. T., 147
Barrett, Michèle, 77–78
Barthes, Roland, 24
Batista, Fulgencio, 18
Bauerlein, Mark, 9
Baumgardner, Jennifer, 119–20
Bazin, Nancy Topping, 73
Beauvoir, Simone de, The Second Sex, 55–56, 60–61
Bechdel, Alison, 80
Begley, Adam, 147
Belenky, Mary Field, 88
Benedict, Ruth, 9
Benjamin, Walter, 24
Bennett, Lerone, The Shaping of Black America, 177
Beyond Queer, 204
Bill of Rights, 100–101
Binder, Eve, 309
Black Arts Movement, 139
Black History Month, 131
Black Panthers, 132, 133, 134, 159–60
Black Power, 122–23, 125, 131, 142, 158
Black Studies, 121–80
and African American identity, 127–31, 132, 139, 157, 172–77
and ancient Egypt, 154–55, 158, 161, 162
and Chicano Studies, 231–32
and civil rights movement, 131, 136, 143, 173
conformity in, 177
and Cosby, 163–64, 166–72
decline of, 142–43
definitions of, 154
and Dyson, 164–71
founding of, 121–27, 133, 136–37, 143
and Gates, 126, 127, 143–49, 150, 158, 162–63, 164, 169
growth of, 127, 135–36, 141, 142, 158, 162
and intersectionality, 177–78
and Islam, 132, 155–56, 158–59
and Karenga, 131, 135, 136–37, 139, 142, 154–62, 163, 164, 172
and Kawaida philosophy, 131, 139, 159–61
leading textbook, 153–54
missions of, 137–38, 142
and postmodernism, 144–47, 150
and race hate, 125, 132, 134, 140–41
at San Francisco State, 133–35
scope of, 141–42, 151
and slavery, 135, 156–58, 172
and Steele, 121–27, 128, 148, 163, 171
and student strikes, 133, 134–36, 138, 142
and victimhood, 135, 139, 157–58, 173
and West, 149–53, 163, 164
and Women’s Studies, 69
Blackwell, Maylei, 285
Bloom, Allan, xv, xvi
Bloom, Harold, 294
Boas, Franz, 9
Bosworth, Gregory, 174–75
Bowling, Patricia, 311–12
Brickhouse, Anna, 296–97
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 139
Brownmiller, Susan, Against Our Will, 65
Brownsey, Mo, 221
Brown v. Board of Education, 131, 132
Buchanan, Pat, 203
Buhle, Mari Jo, 70, 71, 72
Burman, Stephen, 91, 97
Butler, Judith, 24, 82, 216–18
Caeton, Daniel, 306–8
Campos, Paul, 170–71
Canada, divisions within, xii
Carby, Hazel V., 147
Carmichael, Stokely, 133, 143
Carnegie, Andrew, 128
Carter, Alprentice, 160
Castro, Fidel, 18, 22
and Chicano Studies, 259, 268, 280, 283
and Hurricane Katrina, 297
Ceballos, Jacqueline, 41, 42
censorship, 334
centrism, xi, xv
Césaire, Aimé, 22
–23
Chacón, Daniel, 285
Channing, Ms. (pseud.), 90–103
Charen, Mona, 77
Chasin, Barbara H., 91, 99
Chauncey, Georg, 219
Chávez, César, 232, 245
Chávez, Hugo, 280, 297
Chávez Ortiz, Ricardo, 282
Chesler, Phyllis:
The Death of Feminism, 115
on gender differences, 89
on honor killing, 118
and second-wave feminism, 62, 70, 76
and Women’s Studies, 69–70
Chicano Moratorium, 247
Chicano Studies, 231–90
and Acuña, 239, 252–57, 259–63
and anti-Anglo racism, 264–65, 268, 277, 278
anti-gay culture of, 265–70, 277
and Aztlán, 232, 234–35, 238, 249, 250, 278, 279–80, 284–86
and Black Studies, 231–32
and Chicana feminism, 241–44, 271–79
and civil rights movement, 232
and Cuban Revolution, 18, 22, 268, 280, 283
development of, 263
and diversity, 249
and el movimiento, 232, 235–36, 242
founding of, 232–39, 287
growth of, 244–45
and hegemony, 251, 273
“I Am Joaquín,” 233–34
and identity politics, 231–32, 253
labels in, 256–58
manifestos for, 232–36
and Marxism, 238–39, 240, 242, 259, 279–84
National Association for, 243, 258
and Noriega, 286–90
and poverty, 261
and pre-Columbian civilizations, 253–55
purpose of, 232, 236–37
and Quinto Sol collective, 237
and student activism, 232–37, 245–48
and victimhood, 238, 240–42, 250–52, 253
Chicano Studies (Soldatenko), 263–65
China:
no prostitution in, 61
repression in, 19–20, 28
World Conference on Women in, 47–48, 54, 68, 76, 106
Chodorow, Nancy J., 87
City College of San Francisco (CCSF), 220–22
civil rights movement, xiii, 131, 136, 143, 173, 232
Cixous, Hélène, 89
class, in identity studies, 34–35, 38–39, 46
Cleage, Albert, 159
Clemens, David, 315–16, 317, 345–47, 349
Clinchy, Blythe McVicker, 88
Clinton, Bill, 231
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 163-64, 171-72
Cobb, Señora (Mama Cobb), 271–73