U.S. History/Chicano Perspective
Mike Ornelas STUDY GUIDE I
I. Be able to identify and give the significance of the following:
Popé Aztlán hispanophobia el requerimiento
Toypurina Juan de Oñate
Fray Marcos de Niza Great Southwestern Revolt
Aristotelian theory Jeronimo de Aguilar
“conspicuous exoticism” Malintzin Tenepal
Echeveste Regulations The Spanish Colonie
The Black Legend Gonzalo Guerrero
“plague of immorality” microbe shock
"uto-Aztecan" Book of Martyrs
Cabeza de Vaca Garci Ordoñez de Montalvo
"mestizaje" History of America
Antonio de Montesinos Bartolome de las Casas ce-acatl limpieza de sangre pigmentocracy metalanguage
Ordinances of Pacification of 1573 Luis Tupatú gente de razón ladinoization
“mother culture” century of depression II. Be prepared to write an essay on the following:
1.Using the Castañeda article, be prepared to explain how reports of sexual violence by soldiers against Amerindian women threatened the entire mission plan for California, how the notion of Aristotelian theory applies, the symbolic meanings of rape, how rape is justified by conquering nations. Pp. 67-89
2. The 3 major evolving images (pre-Columbian, Spanish mythological and colonial) of the Southwest, with examples. (Chavez, pp 17-36).
3. The four major categories of anti-Mexicanist thought and provide an example for each of the four categories during the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. (Paredes. Pp. 91-121))
4. The factors that contributed to the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec empire (1519-1521).( hand-outs and class discussion.
5. The historic European and American-derived factors which contributed to the Spanish obsession with limpieza de sangre. Describe the “fundamental dichotomy” that pervaded this thought following the American conquests. (Gutierrez, pp. 55-66)