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Defining the Humanities: Chicano Studies
After viewing the uploaded YouTube documentary Defining the Humanities: Chicano Studies submit a personal introspection reflection using your own words, thoughts and ideas on how Dr. Ramon Saldivar, Professor of Chicano Literature at Stanford University addresses and intimates the definition of the Humanities from a contextual Chicano cultural lens? For example, how does story telling through song, music, fiction and non-fiction literature express and preserve culture formally and informally? What does he mean by a history of the future?
Defining the Humanities: Chicano Studies Answer
The “Latinization” of the American culture as Mr. Saldivar points out, is based on how activities that were once restricted to the Chicano community have become somehow more and more experienced in the American society. Looking at Humanities through the Chicano lens means looking at American society through the relevance of Chicano culture, its existence through food, dance, art, literature, music, and social events, in the society.