El Plan de Santa Barbara states that community self-determination is the ethos of Chicanismo- A central question of this course has been how the
Chicano-Xicanx community is defined, both as a method and as an identity. At the end of the introduction to the The Bronze Screen Rosa Linda
Fregoso states that “far from fabricating or inventing a community, Chicanas and Chicanos have reinvented (imagined aneW) a “community” of
Chicanos and Chicanas- In the words of Anderson, “communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in Which
they are imagined-”
Using these words as a prompt answer the following question: HOW has “Chicano-Xicanx” been imagined as a community, identity, and method?
Provide specific examples from the readings to describe how Chicano-Xicanx community, identity, and method were imagined/created- Within each
(community, identity, and method), describe how each has been reinvented or reimagined- In this sense, how does the reinvention of each
(community, identity, method) represent an ongoing reinvention and debate?