A Different Mirror

  Based on your reading of A Different Mirror, Chapter 12, Canvas Reading 15, and your viewing of “Chicano!: Quest for a Homeland,” address the following questions in your essay: Part One: • Based on your reading in A Different Mirror, how did “el barrio” reflect a “Mexican-American world”? How does Takaki describe life in the barrio? How did the people living in it relate to each other? What customs/traditions were retained and practiced? Do you believe such ethnic enclaves are necessary or do you believe they promote exclusion? Support your analysis using examples raised in the text. Part Two: • Based on your reading of “Merton E. Hill Outlines a Program for Americanizing the Mexicans” (Canvas Reading 15), IN YOUR OWN WORDS summarize the curriculum that was to be taught to Mexican-Americans. What did the program focus on teaching them? How was the program gendered? Do you believe this program was created in the best interest of Mexican-Americans? If so, why? If not, why not? Support your analysis using examples raised in the text. Part Three: • Based on your viewing of “Chicano! Quest for a Homeland,” compare the activist approaches of Reies Lopez Tijerina and Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales.” Who do you believe was more effective in the Chicano Movement and why? Why was ‘Aztlan’ so important to the Movement? Why were Chicanos engaged in the anti-Vietnam War protests? Do you believe the death of Ruben Salazar was an accident or a homicide? Support your answers using examples raised in the film. FORMAT AND GRADING: • The essay is worth 25 points. To receive full credit, you must THOROUGHLY address all of the questions listed in all three parts. • The essay must have an introduction and a conclusion. • The essay must be 800 words minimum. Essays under 800 words of text will receive a zero. • The paper must be typed in 12 font in any standard academic font, double-spaced, and have one-inch margins. • Make sure you put your name on the essay!! • You are not to cut and paste from the text and you are not to use outside sources. The essay is to be written in your own words, including any examples from the readings that you use. If you choose to use a direct quote from the readings, it should only be used to back up a point that you are making. Make sure that you cite where in the readings you received your information (e.g. Takaki, p. 15). If you take any information from a source and do not cite it, this is plagiarism. If any plagiarism is detected, the essay grade will be an automatic zero…no exceptions!! • You are to have a work cited page listing the sources used. (This will NOT count toward the 800-word minimum!!) • This essay is a formal writing assignment. In addition to the quality of the content (e.g. the soundness of your argument), pay close attention to grammar, spelling, punctuation, and paragraph structure. PROOFREAD!! USE SPELL CHECK!! Read your essay out loud to yourself before you submit it. If it does not make sense to you, IT WILL NOT MAKE SENSE TO ME!! If there are grammatical errors, spelling errors, and/or poorly constructed paragraphs, points will be deducted from your grade.