CHICANO 10B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Chicano Movement, Casta, Michif Language
19 Mar 2017
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Although mestizaje is seen as approval of colonialism embracing mestizaje is the modern fundamental of. Presents notion of arts and links it between citizenship and the nation-state. Mestizaje and hybridity has become the fundamentalism of chicano studies. There is chicano art like murals that represent the identity of xicanos. For chicanos art making creates political, and social sovereignty. According to a michif, returning to traditional indian customs will onyx lead to more oppression. Murals are a tactic to reclaim colonized space. Mestiza focuses on anticolonial and postructural ambiguity. Art and visuals have been the core of the chicano movement. There was indigenous resistance in the 1960s and 1970s. It connects to recent events of black lives matters. Although it is for different race, black lives matter empowered power people similar to how red power empowered native americans. The strengths of the texts is that it includes strong historical evidence and varied sources of opinions.
