When I began to read “Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality: Chodorow, Familism, and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited” Denise A. Segura and Jennifer L. and “Next of Kin: the Family in Chicano/a Culture Politics” Richard Rodriguez, I learned that both talk about similar issues of family structure in a Chicana/o family. As I continue to get in more into the reading and listen to the different podcast on Family Issues, I began to think about the issues that surround Chicana/o family culture identity and begin to see how family identity culture structures can be constructed through political ideology. In Rodriguez reading, he mentions how in Mexican American families, are a “crucial symbol” in larger “frames” of Mexican American History (Rodriguez 2). He examines the kinship discourse between family’s culture identities and their structures that struggles with patriarchy, nationalism, and masculinity. In most Chicana/o family’s women are oppressed and live in patriarchal structures. They are set to be the caregivers of their families because of the machismo society they live in. As a result, I began to wonder if Chicana/o families are actually constructed politically or historical? What does everyone think? In the Latino USA Family Values Podcast all discuss about their own family values that each family has. Each one of the podcast has different values for their own families. They all share different ideologies in their family structure. For example, in one of the podcast “Family Takes Epic Bike Ride” their family focuses on their family wellbeing rather than focusing on the struggles of family structures. As a result, I come to think about the different family structure that we have in most of our Chicana/o or Latina/o families? Are they politically structured or do we all have different values or ideology? How are Chicana/o families really constructed?
Question: “As a result, I began to wonder if Chicana/o families are actually constructed politically or historical?”
To answer your question, I think that the way chica know if families were constructed is it politically and historically. They both go hand-in-hand in this topic’s readings and podcasts. We live in a patriarchal world. Since we live in patriarchy we have men that organize and lead movements rather than women, at least in the Chicano movement. At the time of the Chicano movement women were questioning their role in it. At home they were being told to stand behind their men and even in the movement they were told to do the same. Although not all families were the same I feel like a majority of families lived under this much is more influence and hands reinforced this idea that women were only to be support for their men. Yes, there were feminist, but I think a majority of women were a little hesitant to this idea because of history and policy.
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Question: “As a result, I began to wonder if Chicana/o families are actually constructed politically or historical?”
To answer your question, I think that the way chicano/a if families were constructed is it politically and historically. They both go hand-in-hand in this topic’s readings and podcasts. We live in a patriarchal world. Since we live in patriarchy we have men that organize and lead movements rather than women, at least in the Chicano movement. At the time of the Chicano movement women were questioning their role in it. At home they were being told to stand behind their men and even in the movement they were told to do the same. Although not all families were the same I feel like a majority of families lived under this machismo influence and hence reinforced this idea that women were only to be support for their men. Yes, there were feminist, but I think a majority of women were a little hesitant to this idea because of history and policy.
Group 2 Respondent
Hi Kelsey,
Yes I very much agree with your statement and argument. Family values and structures do have a big role in a “Mexican” families lives.
To answer your question about Chicano/a Families being constructed politically or historical, I believe they do go hand-in-hand because it is political but yet it does have history, which people from different generations constructed those values, and they were just passed on from generation to generation.