Anna Nieto-Gómez
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Born | 1946 San Bernardino County, California, United States |
Nationality | Mexican American |
Movement | Chicana feminism |
Anna Nieto-Gomez (also rendered as NietoGomez) is a scholar, journalist, and author who was a central part of the early
Early life
Anna NietoGomez was born in
From an early age, NietoGomez was very aware of the discrimination, both from racism and sexism, that existed in her segregated community. Much of this early awareness stemmed from her own family. For example, as a young girl NietoGomez disliked how her grandfather treated her grandmother; she went on a meal strike in order to negotiate a behavior change from him. According to NietoGomez, "my grandma would not eat at that table until everyone was finished-like a servant, like she wasn't family-so that didn't seem right since neither my father nor my other grandfather treated their wives this way."[1]
College years
In 1967, NietoGomez began attending California State University at Long Beach and became involved in the Mexican-American students rights movement, founding Hijas de Cuauhtémoc in 1971, a feminist-centered Chicana newspaper. NietoGomez and the women's group, also named Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, "took their name from a Mexican feminist organization that worked against the Porfirio Díaz dictatorship in Mexico,"[3]: 326 and also addressed issues ignored by the Chicano population, including those to do with gender and sexuality. Her contemporaries in the group included Adelaida Del Castillo,[citation needed] Sylvia Castillo, Leticia Hernandez, and Corinne Sanchez.[4]
During this time NietoGomez was also involved in el
Career
Later NietoGomez would serve at
NietoGomez was denied tenure at California State University, Northridge in 1976, due to what she considered her political stance. After a lengthy battle to appeal the tenure decision, NietoGomez resigned on September 3, 1976.[8] NietoGomez's tenure battle and professorship in general demonstrate not only the power dynamics and pitfalls in white male-dominated institutions, but also within the Chicano movement of the time.[1]
Selected works
- Encuentro Femenil
- The Needs of the Chicano on the College Campus (1969)
References
- ^ ISBN 9780292726901.
- ^ Alvarez, Ramiro. "Anna NietoGomez". Chicana Por Mi Raza. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ ISBN 0-253-34681-9.
- ^ "Chicana Feminists". California State University, Long Beach. Archived from the original on 28 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
- ^ Roth, Benita (2004). "We Called Ourselves 'Feministas': Intramovement Experience and the Emergence of Chicana Feminism.". Separate Roads to Feminism. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- ISBN 0-275-95624-5.
- ISBN 978-0-252-03189-2.
- ISBN 978-0-292-72690-1.