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In the following paper, I focus on the writings of two of the more prolific authors in early Mexican American scholarship; namely, Ernesto Galarza and Americo Paredes. In particular, I argue in this paper that these authors serve to ground important questions of ontology and epistemology surrounding the constitution of Mexican Americans in the social sciences, and in doing so establish important precepts for subsequent research in Chicano and Latino politics. While Galarza and Paredes were by no means the only Mexican American social scientists examining the conditions of Mexican Americans in the U.S. between 1920 and 1960, their work is significant because it successfully challenges the logic of "ethnicity theory" and the forms of Americanization that galvanized understandings of race, while expanding the critique of inequality to questions of discourse and the production of knowledge. Thus, Galarza and Paredes were significant for the way they broke from tradition in the social sciences, examining both the politics surrounding Mexican American communities and the politics of social science research. Finally, they were key to the foundations of Latino politics and politically conscious research by shifting the ontological perspective to one situated in the lived experiences of Mexican Americans, and in the process introducing alternative subject positions that would challenge prevailing stereotypes about the population. |
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| Sampaio, Anna. "Latino Politics Research: a Critical Intellectual History" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211844_index.html> |
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| Sampaio, A. , 2007-08-30 "Latino Politics Research: a Critical Intellectual History" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211844_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: In the following paper, I focus on the writings of two of the more prolific authors in early Mexican American scholarship; namely, Ernesto Galarza and Americo Paredes. In particular, I argue in this paper that these authors serve to ground important questions of ontology and epistemology surrounding the constitution of Mexican Americans in the social sciences, and in doing so establish important precepts for subsequent research in Chicano and Latino politics. While Galarza and Paredes were by no means the only Mexican American social scientists examining the conditions of Mexican Americans in the U.S. between 1920 and 1960, their work is significant because it successfully challenges the logic of "ethnicity theory" and the forms of Americanization that galvanized understandings of race, while expanding the critique of inequality to questions of discourse and the production of knowledge. Thus, Galarza and Paredes were significant for the way they broke from tradition in the social sciences, examining both the politics surrounding Mexican American communities and the politics of social science research. Finally, they were key to the foundations of Latino politics and politically conscious research by shifting the ontological perspective to one situated in the lived experiences of Mexican Americans, and in the process introducing alternative subject positions that would challenge prevailing stereotypes about the population. |
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| Latino Political Research: A Critical Intellectual History of Ernesto Galarza and Americo Paredes Anna Sampaio Department of Political Science University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center In a paper presented at the 1970 American Political Science Association meetings Carlos Muñoz critiqued the discipline for it’s limited scholarship on Mexican Americans and for the direction of this discipline which tended to situate work on the population within frameworks with limited explanatory value.1 Quoting from a 1970 report presented |
| Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles 1900-1945. New York: Oxford University Press. San Juan Jr. E. 1992. Racial Formations/Critical Transformations: Articulations of Power in Ethnic and Racial Studies in the United States. New Jersey and London: Humanities Press. Saragoza Alex. 1989. “The Significance of Recent Chicano-Related Historical Writings: An Appraisal.” Ethnic Affairs. Austin TX: CMAS Publications University at Austin. Thatcher Rebecca.“Pioneer in Mexican American Folklore Dies ” The Austin American Statesman May 06 1999. |
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