TY - BOOK AU - Sánchez,Marta E. TI - Shakin' Up Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995) T2 - Chicana Matters SN - 9780292796805 AV - PS153.M56 S26 2005eb U1 - 810.9/920693/09045 22 PY - 2021///] CY - Austin : PB - University of Texas Press, KW - African Americans in literature KW - African Americans KW - Intellectual life KW - American literature KW - Minority authors KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Ethnic groups in literature KW - Mexican Americans in literature KW - Mexican Americans KW - Minorities in literature KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - History KW - Puerto Ricans in literature KW - Puerto Ricans KW - United States KW - Race in literature KW - Sex role in literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Agradecimientos --; Prelude --; Introduction: Intercultural connections --; One “ in bed” with la Malinche: stories of “family” á la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis --; Two La Malinche at the Intersection of Puerto Rican and African American Cultures: Piri Thomas and Down These Mean Streets --; Interlude 2 La Malinche: Shuffling the Puerto Rican Border in Spanish and Black Harlem --; Three Of Nutshells, Frogs, and Men in Manchild in the Promised Land --; Interlude 3 Grandma knows best : the women in manchild in the promised land --; Four Overcoming Self-Loathing, Learning to Love Brownness: Oscar Zeta Acosta and The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo --; Interlude 4 The brown buffalo puts on blackface --; Epilogue La Malinche comes home --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Copyright acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access N2 - The second phase of the civil rights movement (1965-1973) was a pivotal period in the development of ethnic groups in the United States. In the years since then, new generations have asked new questions to cast light on this watershed era. No longer is it productive to consider only the differences between ethnic groups; we must also study them in relation to one another and to U.S. mainstream society. In "Shakin' Up" Race and Gender, Marta E. Sánchez creates an intercultural frame to study the historical and cultural connections among Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and Chicanos/as since the 1960s. Her frame opens up the black/white binary that dominated the 1960s and 1970s. It reveals the hidden yet real ties that connected ethnics of color and "white" ethnics in a shared intercultural history. By using key literary works published during this time, Sánchez reassesses and refutes the unflattering portrayals of ethnics by three leading intellectuals (Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis) who wrote about Chicanos, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans. She links their implicit misogyny to the trope of La Malinche from Chicano culture and shows how specific characteristics of this trope—enslavement, alleged betrayal, and cultural negotiation—are also present in African American and Puerto Rican cultures. Sánchez employs the trope to restore the agency denied to these groups. Intercultural contact—encounters between peoples of distinct ethnic groups—is the theme of this book UR - https://doi.org/10.7560/706934 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292796805 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292796805/original ER -