CHICANO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Feminist Theory
22 May 2018
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Department
Course
Professor
Rasquachismo
"Rasquachismo is a sensibility that is not elevated and serious, but playful
and elemental."
Dr. Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
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"In ensemble, the carpa sketches are some of the earliest artistic
projections of the rasquache sensibility." pg. 158
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"A sort of good taste of bad taste." pg. 155
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"Chicano artists played vernacular art forms and sources in the foreground
and investigated the rasquache modality in ephemeral instinctive actions."
pg. 160
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"The recuperation and recontextualization of vernacular sensibilities and
art forms extend to the present." pg. 161
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"To be rasquache is to be down, but not out (fregado pero no jodido).
Responding to a direct relationship with the material level of existence or
subsistence is what engenders a rasquache attitude of survival and
inventiveness."
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"Rasquachismo is a vernacular system of taste that is intuitive and sincere,
not thought out of self-conscious. It is a way of putting yourself
together…"
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Ybarra-Frausto
"Es una casa rasquache."
House that was falling apart but had a certain taste to it
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Does not mean you are putting it down
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Isn't a style or a form, it's a sensibility
An understanding of a particular aesthetic code in any
particular community, and it comes out of the experience of
living in that community
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"Hacer de tripas, corazon."
You make do with what you have.
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Rasquache example
Curtain that Luis Valdez made for el Teatro Campecino
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Sacks put together - made do with what he had
Ordinary sack turned into a piece of art
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When you're poor, you never have enough material
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One of the aesthetics of rasquache is little bits and pieces
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Create something that was not there as profound and as a beautiful
and as satisfying because it’s making do with what you have
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Using Chicana Feminist theory to analyze Chicana/o murals
Using "thirdspace feminism" to investigate murals that represent women
leaders, organizers, goddesses, warriors, etc.
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Dr. Emma Pérez Guest Lecture
The Will to Feel: Decolonial Methods, Queer and Otherwise
Week$6$Lecture$11
Monday,)May)7,)2018
10:02)AM
