Y tu, que Y2K

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Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --entire class was focused on the similarities
  and differences between the present-day status of
  Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans in the
  US and that of people of Mexican origin in the
  past.

2
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --One student, in particular, explained that all
  the members of her family had answered the racial
  question differently, depending on their own
  self-identities.

3
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --Latino populations sense of self and its
  collective history are still far from having a
  definitive impact on the understanding of race,
  ethnicity, and nationhood in the US.

4
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --the intellectual transformation necessary to
  accord the Latino condition its rightful
  prominence in US history is just beginning and
  will be the centerpiece, I believe, of the work
  of Latino historians in the twenty-first
  century.

5
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --to make it mean a call to Latino academicians
  to answer the query, Y tu, que? with a
  resounding attempt to move Latinos to the center
  of our academic specialties, and
  interdisciplinary discussions.

6
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --two general tensions,have marked late
  twenty-century development of Latino
  historydifference in outlook and
  direction--Latin Americanist vs. US historian.

7
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --Mexican American history went from a
  nascent, relatively unknown subfield of
  mainstream US history to a growing, respected
  body of scholarship, which has served as the
  springboard for studies that pose new,
  provocative questions and open new areas of
  inquiry.

8
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --graduate students in Chicano history today
  probably know less about Latin America than those
  that entered the field in the 1960s and 1970s.

9
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --Is there such a thing as Latino history?

10
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --this has led to a body of work Latino
  history in which ethnic specialty still reigns
  supreme?

11
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --having experienced a colonial relationship1
  to the US as a people and having come to the
  continental US as an immigrant/migrant2 group.

12
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --overriding historical reality of the
  twentieth century for all Latino
  groups,communities in the US have been
  profoundly enriched and transformed by migrants
  from Latin America.

13
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --third3 critical area that needs to be
  explored to enhance our understanding of Latinos
  place in US society, is the complicated role of
  race and racial formation.

14
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --multiracial body has been appropriated for
  use as a symbol of multi-ethnic America, often
  representing the nations hope for the future and
  its potential for overcoming racial strife.

15
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --only serves to heighten a new form of racial
  essentialism and once again frame the process of
  overcoming racial hierarchy as a fundamentally
  biological one.

16
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --this new fascination with multiracial bodies
  is historic in being unable to look at the
  particular ways in which racialization occurs
  despite and alongside racial mixing.

17
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --The multi-racial body, therefore, becomes an
  excellent vehicle for globilization--an image
  made to order for multi-national corporate
  capital.

18
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --liberals, neoliberals writers who call on
  Americans to move beyond race, ethnicity, and
  identity politics toward a new American nation
  where difference is minimized and cosmopolitanism
  and toleration loom large.

19
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --nearly one in three Hispanics marries a
  non-Hispanic.

20
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --that force us to ask about the costs of the
  rigidifying of ethno-racial particularisms.

21
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --Americas Achilles heel of race requires
  that we embrace hybridity--not only in physical
  race crossing but in our minds as a shared pride
  in and identify with hybridity.

22
Y tu, que? (Y2K)

• --Welcome to the Americas! Racial mixing has
  never in itself destroyed racial
  privilege,throughout nearly all Latin America
  has proved.

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Review Questions

• 1.) What are the similarities and differences
  between first and second generation Latinos?
• 2.) Who decides ones identity?
• 3.) What intellectual transformation do Latinos
  go/should go through?
• 4.) What/who are Chicanos?
• 5.) What are the three commonalities that
  historians should consider about all Latinos?
• 6.) What role does the multi-racial body in the
  contemporary Latino esperience?