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El Laberinto, 1971-1987
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III From LA RAZA, The Mexican Americans, By Stan Steiner " You see a Chicano university student is alienated from his language; he is de-culturized and finally dehumanized so as to be able to function in a white, middle class, protestant bag," the Chicano Student News reports. " It is damn obvious to the Chicano in college that education means either of two things: either accept the system-study, receive a diploma, accept the cubicle and the IBM machine in some lousy bank or factory, and move out of the barrio- or reject the system...." Now the Chicano university students have begun the climb down from their lonely success to the streets of the barrios and the fields of the campesinos. They come as on a pilgrimage, seeking an identity. (page 236) The experience of LA HUELGA was a strange and exhilarating one for the students as well, for it profoundly affected the lives of many who had come (to Delano). Luis Valdez, who went on to found El Centro Cultural Campesino, and Eliezer Risco, who became editor of LA RAZA, were but two of the dozens of student leaders whose lives were changed by Delano. (237) "In advance of their people, the Chicano leader must go through the whole bourgeois scene, find it distasteful, and then strike out in new directions. This is what happened with Corky Gonzalez and Cesar Chavez. Divorcing themselves from the petty aims of success, they see the middle class for what it is. Then they can see the lower class plain. In short they discover there is a world out there (in the barrios)." - Luis Valdez (page 238) In the barrios brotherhood is in the blood, the blood of La Raza. "One boy will bring beer, while others will bring rifa(mota):; still others bring money for the use of activities, or gas in a members, car. This is a thing that goes on every night with something different every night that it can,t be called a "dead kick". (page 240) I look at myself/and see part of me/who rejects my father and my mother/and dissolves into the melting pot/ to evaporate in shame. -Corky Gonzalez- "Soul searching," Dr. Ernesto Galarza calls it. (page 241) "Who the hell are we? Where are we? Where do we belong? Study it! Announce it to the world!" ......." Let's end this hang-up about identity. We know who we are. In order to survive we have learned survival skills. Sure but let,s not confuse our survival skills in ANGLO society with OUR CULTURE. We have a parallel culture .We have to keep it. I say we can do it. We don,t have to be one of THEM!" The problem of identity is perpetuated by university study projects, "..so that they will have something to study" ...I.ve been there ( he has worked on several of these project.s) and that,s not where it,s att. _Joe Benitos, from Arizona (page 242) Our experience will be a lesson for the whole world (page 243)
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III From LA RAZA, The Mexican Americans, By Stan Steiner " You see a Chicano university student is alienated from his language; he is de-culturized and finally dehumanized so as to be able to function in a white, middle class, protestant bag," the Chicano Student News reports. " It is damn obvious to the Chicano in college that education means either of two things: either accept the system-study, receive a diploma, accept the cubicle and the IBM machine in some lousy bank or factory, and move out of the barrio- or reject the system...." Now the Chicano university students have begun the climb down from their lonely success to the streets of the barrios and the fields of the campesinos. They come as on a pilgrimage, seeking an identity. (page 236) The experience of LA HUELGA was a strange and exhilarating one for the students as well, for it profoundly affected the lives of many who had come (to Delano). Luis Valdez, who went on to found El Centro Cultural Campesino, and Eliezer Risco, who became editor of LA RAZA, were but two of the dozens of student leaders whose lives were changed by Delano. (237) "In advance of their people, the Chicano leader must go through the whole bourgeois scene, find it distasteful, and then strike out in new directions. This is what happened with Corky Gonzalez and Cesar Chavez. Divorcing themselves from the petty aims of success, they see the middle class for what it is. Then they can see the lower class plain. In short they discover there is a world out there (in the barrios)." - Luis Valdez (page 238) In the barrios brotherhood is in the blood, the blood of La Raza. "One boy will bring beer, while others will bring rifa(mota):; still others bring money for the use of activities, or gas in a members, car. This is a thing that goes on every night with something different every night that it can,t be called a "dead kick". (page 240) I look at myself/and see part of me/who rejects my father and my mother/and dissolves into the melting pot/ to evaporate in shame. -Corky Gonzalez- "Soul searching," Dr. Ernesto Galarza calls it. (page 241) "Who the hell are we? Where are we? Where do we belong? Study it! Announce it to the world!" ......." Let's end this hang-up about identity. We know who we are. In order to survive we have learned survival skills. Sure but let,s not confuse our survival skills in ANGLO society with OUR CULTURE. We have a parallel culture .We have to keep it. I say we can do it. We don,t have to be one of THEM!" The problem of identity is perpetuated by university study projects, "..so that they will have something to study" ...I.ve been there ( he has worked on several of these project.s) and that,s not where it,s att. _Joe Benitos, from Arizona (page 242) Our experience will be a lesson for the whole world (page 243)
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