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The Chicano Labyrinth of Solitude: A Study in the Making of the Chicano Mind and Character

The Chicano Labyrinth of Solitude: A Study in the Making of the Chicano Mind and Character

Author(s): Enrique C Orozco

Edition: 2

Copyright: 2013

Pages: 238

Edition: 2

Copyright: 2013

Pages: 238

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This book focuses on one of the major causes for the present widespread social and psychological maladjustment of the brown American Spanish surnamed community: the public schools. The social pitfalls of a culture of separation, discrimination, and the social intimidation of a colored minority are also highlighted; and the dangerous insensitivity perpetrated by the Chicano desocialization process. The following conclusion also holds true. That is, that society’s means to an end inoperative “false” American idealism is creating and nurturing explosive socio-psychological conditions in the barrios, and among Spanish-speaking immigrants and socially marginalized mobile brown Americans.

The writings of brown Spanish surnamed women in the ivory tower, as an example, are infused with leftist literary fantasies such as post- colonialism and internationalism reminiscent of universal socialist doctrine. In brief, academic intellectual notions that are irrelevant to the Chicano community which, when tested, instead of healing often result in further cultural alienation and confusion among Mexican American young people. This second edition also examines the marginalized brown American woman’s socialist and American white woman’s liberation influences in their disquisitions, and their references to broader sexuality issues, homosexuality, machismo, their not too subtle disdain for collective Mexicanism and Chicanismo.

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Introduction 

CHAPTER 1 The Formative Years: Self-Images and Expectations    
CHAPTER 2 The Formative Years: Desocialization and Alienation    
CHAPTER 3 Mexican Stereotypes: A Basis of Hostility    
CHAPTER 4 The Early Adolescent Years: Self-Images and Expectations   
CHAPTER 5 The Middle School: A Chicano Crossroads    
CHAPTER 6 Early Adolescent Years: Brown American Authority Models    
CHAPTER 7 The Later Adolescent Years: Beyond the Crossroads    
CHAPTER 8 The Timeless Philosophical Impasse: Nature vs. God    
CHAPTER 9 Later Adolescence and the Dark Side of Ethnocide: The Bato Loco Fantasy    
CHAPTER 10 A Deplorable School Record: Barriers to Being Somebody    
CHAPTER 11 The Internal Colony Labyrinth: Perpetuating the Consciousness of Inferiority    
CHAPTER 12 The Internal Colony Labyrinth: Non-Colonized, Non-Chicano Roles    
CHAPTER 13 Those Mexicans: A Republican Protestant View    
CHAPTER 14 Chicano Nationalism: A New Birth of Freedom    
CHAPTER 15 Freedom Maligned: The Pathways of “False” Americanism    
CHAPTER 16 Anything but Chicano Thought    

Glossary 
Key Terms and Discussion Questions    
Index 
Author Biography    
 

Enrique C Orozco

Dr. E.C. Orozco was born and reared in a southern California barrio. He is the fifth child of a family of ten children born to Agapito Orozco Miramontes of Temastian, Jalisco, Mexico, and Cruz Cardoza Barbalena of Barstow, California. He is a product of Van Nuys High School and California State University at Northridge where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree. Dr. Orozco was encouraged by the distinguished Native American anthropologist, Jack D. Forbes, to pursue doctoral studies at the University of Southern California. The renowned historian, Manuel P. Servin, served as his mentor at the University of Southern California where he earned his doctorate. Professor Orozco has taught at numerous California colleges and universities including California State Universities at Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles, and Northridge. He has also taught at Woodbury University, Mt. St. Mary’s College, and at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Dr. Orozco is presently the coordinator of Chicano Studies at Pasadena City College. The author did post-doctoral work in philosophy and theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, and at Los Angeles Valley College in Jewish Studies under the erudite Zev Garber.
 

This book focuses on one of the major causes for the present widespread social and psychological maladjustment of the brown American Spanish surnamed community: the public schools. The social pitfalls of a culture of separation, discrimination, and the social intimidation of a colored minority are also highlighted; and the dangerous insensitivity perpetrated by the Chicano desocialization process. The following conclusion also holds true. That is, that society’s means to an end inoperative “false” American idealism is creating and nurturing explosive socio-psychological conditions in the barrios, and among Spanish-speaking immigrants and socially marginalized mobile brown Americans.

The writings of brown Spanish surnamed women in the ivory tower, as an example, are infused with leftist literary fantasies such as post- colonialism and internationalism reminiscent of universal socialist doctrine. In brief, academic intellectual notions that are irrelevant to the Chicano community which, when tested, instead of healing often result in further cultural alienation and confusion among Mexican American young people. This second edition also examines the marginalized brown American woman’s socialist and American white woman’s liberation influences in their disquisitions, and their references to broader sexuality issues, homosexuality, machismo, their not too subtle disdain for collective Mexicanism and Chicanismo.

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Introduction 

CHAPTER 1 The Formative Years: Self-Images and Expectations    
CHAPTER 2 The Formative Years: Desocialization and Alienation    
CHAPTER 3 Mexican Stereotypes: A Basis of Hostility    
CHAPTER 4 The Early Adolescent Years: Self-Images and Expectations   
CHAPTER 5 The Middle School: A Chicano Crossroads    
CHAPTER 6 Early Adolescent Years: Brown American Authority Models    
CHAPTER 7 The Later Adolescent Years: Beyond the Crossroads    
CHAPTER 8 The Timeless Philosophical Impasse: Nature vs. God    
CHAPTER 9 Later Adolescence and the Dark Side of Ethnocide: The Bato Loco Fantasy    
CHAPTER 10 A Deplorable School Record: Barriers to Being Somebody    
CHAPTER 11 The Internal Colony Labyrinth: Perpetuating the Consciousness of Inferiority    
CHAPTER 12 The Internal Colony Labyrinth: Non-Colonized, Non-Chicano Roles    
CHAPTER 13 Those Mexicans: A Republican Protestant View    
CHAPTER 14 Chicano Nationalism: A New Birth of Freedom    
CHAPTER 15 Freedom Maligned: The Pathways of “False” Americanism    
CHAPTER 16 Anything but Chicano Thought    

Glossary 
Key Terms and Discussion Questions    
Index 
Author Biography    
 

Enrique C Orozco
Enrique C Orozco

Dr. E.C. Orozco was born and reared in a southern California barrio. He is the fifth child of a family of ten children born to Agapito Orozco Miramontes of Temastian, Jalisco, Mexico, and Cruz Cardoza Barbalena of Barstow, California. He is a product of Van Nuys High School and California State University at Northridge where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree. Dr. Orozco was encouraged by the distinguished Native American anthropologist, Jack D. Forbes, to pursue doctoral studies at the University of Southern California. The renowned historian, Manuel P. Servin, served as his mentor at the University of Southern California where he earned his doctorate. Professor Orozco has taught at numerous California colleges and universities including California State Universities at Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles, and Northridge. He has also taught at Woodbury University, Mt. St. Mary’s College, and at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Dr. Orozco is presently the coordinator of Chicano Studies at Pasadena City College. The author did post-doctoral work in philosophy and theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, and at Los Angeles Valley College in Jewish Studies under the erudite Zev Garber.