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My Family and Star Maps

My Family and Star Maps. Contrasting view of the family from Rosalinda Fregoso’s meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (2003). My Family and the Reconstruction of the Chicano Family Experience .

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My Family and Star Maps

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  1. My Family andStar Maps Contrasting view of the family from Rosalinda Fregoso’s meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (2003)

  2. My Family and the Reconstruction of the Chicano Family Experience • Family memories through: indigenous music and iconography, circular migrations, Californio territorial claims, service workers, repatriation, state repression, political activism and incarceration. • Jose and Maria (the Biblical Joseph and Mary) archetype for the Chicano generational experiences.

  3. My Family and the New Right’s Moral Panic • Emphasis on common interests of families and Republican political and electoral agenda • Conforms to the notion of family as defined through heterosexual marriage, nuclear bloodlines, patriarchal authority, hard work and gender hierarchies. • “Marriage is sacred” • Nostalgia for the modern nuclear family structure

  4. My Family Through Masculine Voices • Voices represent hope, memory, struggle, and oedipal crisis (Chucho and Jose, Jimmy and son). • Patriarchal authority predominates • Catholic influences: patriarchal authority, women as secondary, marriage as sacred

  5. My Familyas a One-dimensional View • Fails to acknowledge complexity of family settings and • Women as victims of violence within families • Incest and abuse • Rape and sexual battery • Non-traditional families and complex family settings such as blended families, female-headed households, lesbian and gay parents, single-parent families, etc.

  6. Star Maps and the Dystopian view • Counterpoint to Nava’s bucolic (idealistic-utopian) portrait of the family. • More complex portrayal, including paternal domestic violence, psychological brutalization of the family • Father runs a teenage male prostitution ring whose clientele is the white Hollywood elite

  7. Star Maps and Dysfunctional • Family space as dysfunctional • Site of multiple forms of violence • Includes various forms of private violence • The “parentification of children”—”dysfunctional patterns of physically abusive Latino families that involves saddling children with the responsibilities of the parents”

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