A Life of Mixed Feelings: Joann Cardenas Enos

1. A Life of Mixed Feelings: Joann Cardenas Enos Jennifer Sanchez CHIC 3446

2. Joann Cardenas Enos Minnesota roots Lower flats of the East Side Chicana

4. Significance of Chicano history Little H The shaping of a person’s character and understanding of ethnic history is not created exclusively through the events of the epicenter. Instead what matters comes from a continuum of experience with impacts on the familial, local, and national levels. She exemplifies the importance of a counter narrative to the master that is Chicano History as well as US History Big H

5. Ties to Chican@ and US Master History Experiences of Anti-Mexican American Sentiment Social deconstruction of heritage through public education

6. Ties to Chican@ and US Master History Connection to US movements and military actions: • Forced displacement • From the flats and Swede Hollow to the I-94 freeway system • Militancy in the Chicano Movement • Vietnam War

7. Living in a World of Duality Feeling of Chicano significance here in Minnesota mixed with feeling of unbreakable glass ceiling Distrusting and disliking Anglos as well as running for public office to represent them Hope for the future of all in MN and sentiment that the next generation is not learning how to coexist

8. My Perspective