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. Sa nchez 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, Sa nchez 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. Sa nchez 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.
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