CHI 050 MIDTERM 2 KEY TERMS

Hegemony

the ruling class’s ideas become widely accepted as dominant ideas, including among people those ideas may harm. Schools, churches, media, and families can reproduce those beliefs so that they seem normal rather than political- Connect to 1950s anticommunism in Salf of the earth

Chicanx utopia

Alvarez uses utopia to describe a desire for a better way of living. He also examines the conditions that prevent that desire from being realized.

Neoliberlism

An emphasis on individual entrepreneurial freedom, free markets, privatization, and deregulation. Use it to explain the market-oriented values that convivencia challenges.

Context for Salt of the Earth

Red Scare / McCarthyism- Fear of communism led to the removal of suspected communists from media, education, and labor. Salt of the Earth was viewed as communist, and lead actress Rosaura Revueltas was deported before production was complete.

Salt of the Earth

A film about Mexican American miners’ struggle for fair treatment. Its vision of worker solidarity was limited by 1950s anticommunism and by racial and gender inequalities connected to the film.

Convivencia

“The deliberate act of being with and present for each other as community.” González’s discussion treats music as a way to build relationships, rather than as something valued only for productivity or profit.

Brown-eyed soul

Chicano music influenced by Black soul music, reflecting musical exchange and Black–brown solidarity. Connects to the civil rights movment and Chicano movement

Civil rights and Chicano movements

solidarity between groups—as part of the context that made brown-eyed soul possible.

Quetzal

A band discussed in CHI 050 as carrying forward the legacy of brown-eyed soul through music connected to identity, racial crossings, and social change. The Zapatistas were a major influence on the band and Martha González.

The Zapatistas

An Indigenous-led movement in Mexico that resisted land privatization and capitalist exploitation. They demanded recognition, land rights, and an end to marginalization, with organizing rooted in community and relationships.

Rosaura Revueltas

The lead actress in Salt of the Earth. She was deported before the film was completed—an example of the 1950s political pressure surrounding it.

McCarran-Walter Act (1952)

An immigration law that allowed deportation of non-citizens with communist ties. Use it as legal context for the Salt of the Earth answer.

Market system

The approach to music that González contrasts with convivencia: valuing productivity or profit rather than community and relationships.