Chicano Studies 1B Lecture 9 Process of Conocimiento PDF

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Chicano Studies 1B, Professor Aida Hurtado, Winter 18'...

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March 14, 2018 Process of conocimiento (Anzaldua) to produce transformation and enact spiritual activism. •

Gloria Anzaldua’s seven stages of conocimiento:

-Where bits of your self die and are reborn in each step. -Has 7 stages, look at index in beyond machismo for exam. -Arrebato (disruption) this shaping promotes a re-examination of self in a better way Jose had never witnessed violence, and so the process of incarceration was dehumanizing, also seen in Jimmy Santiago Baca. - Nepantla (in between), not necessarily a bad thing, but can be a very confusing thing if you stay in nepantla, allows you to question everything, in this questioning you start to find out what you are or what is of use to you. -Coatlicue (goddess fusion of things), because life is composed of these complexities, nothing is only beautiful or horrible, it takes a lot of psychological work to see these things happening simultaneously, can only be yours, done from the inside. -A Call to action, how will I enact this fusion, I have to go out to the public and say what fusion is. -State 5: Desire for order and meaning, find state of stability, okay now I know what accomplishment feels like, now I want more of that, more stability, more predictability. -Stage 6: Take your story to the world, we reconstitute that identity, the audience or your family may reject that identity, it is a painful process of getting back feedback and seeing what part of the identity are working and which are not, this can also throw you back to a state of nepantla. -Stage 7: Transformation and spiritual activism, acting out of the vision of spiritual activism, find a calling and find a way to be at peace with the world, see that a sense of worth will help the world be a better place, not our of paternalism, not trying to force your views on people, not feeling like you have all the knowledge of the world and impart it on others, but truly at peace and feelings good (: This is cyclical so at any point in time the arrebato can grab you again. The more you can do this the more you. •

Transformation that Ana Castillo went through:

-She complied, did not violate any rules, however, she too was traumatized, outcome of gender and sexuality were different. -Her prison was that of gender, gender is a prison because of the way that gender constrains women more than it does men. -She could not be a writer, her struggle was transgressive, that in itself was a transgression that could be punished by others in her life space, she could not be an intellectual, she could not be independent because it was thought of as forgiving not single, she could not be economically self-sufficient.

-A woman should be conventional ( a secretary, a teacher, a hairdresser), many WOC were advised to take on these kinds of careers. -The prescription of her path is to follow what these things should be. -You should be dependent on a man, such as your father, your brother, bf. -You should be heterosexual, anna castillo was bi and this was extremely transgressive, and homebound. -Where are you going, when are you coming back, this incredible policing of your freedom. That restricts you knowing how to be independent and free. You don’t practice it. You can see the similarities from the benevolent loving prison that is your family, and that that is your family, it just has different sources. -The gender and sexuality prison restricts both men and women, but in different ways. -Jimmy and jose were not physically restrained, they did not have to raise children. -They were not financially responsible for children, whereas ana castillos life was all about providing for her children. -They were not sexually assaulted, women are assaulted across many different boundaries, have to think of how to protect yourself from the age your 4 until you die. Just a given as a women that you protect yourself. -They were not in danger of sexual harassment, they were not held accountable to sexual restrictions. -Did not matter how many sexual partners your brother or jimmy had, whereas women judged etc. -And many other more patriarchal restrictions. -Gender diferences in oppression as adversarial vs ana castillo’s chicana feminism is intersectional through relational dovetailing. -Intersecion of gender, class, ethnicity and race, and to analyze the subjectivities, the restrictions, and failures so that we can then understand their success. We can then enter each others life space and have a better sense of how to help each other. -She takes agency in her life’s own outcomes, doesn’t blame anyone for her circumstances, she takes responsibility for raising her son and what happens to her son, she never abandons her son, but instead sees the structural forces at work and fights for her son. -Who am I, what are my values, what do i want? Taking full agency for who she is as a person. -tell him what he was doing wrong (conocimiento) possibilities for success, etc and send him into arrebato. -Contextualized explanation of your life space, showed us how you have been able to contextualize your life in a different way....