Before delving into Aztec Angel, closer examination of Chicano literature will serve as an excellent primer for understanding how Salinas felt when writing the piece. After a turbulent 1960’s Civil Rights Movement, the Chicano movement has made a significant impact on societal change. At the heart of the movement is a sense of pride in their Chicano heritage and keeping culture alive through writing, helping unite other Mexican Americans identify with the issues needing change. According to an article on the ChicanoMovement.Wikispaces.com, the three main goals of the Chicano Movement were: restoration of land, rights for farm workers, and education reforms. One of the primary goals of the modern Chicanos has been to voice the disparities between their upbringings versus the more privileged Anglo-Saxon experience.
Now that I am middle-aged, I incline more toward the Mexican point of view.” This quote describes the clashing cultures of Mexico and California (Protestant optimism) inside Richard Rodriguez. California is a comedy because it is a world of youth, where you
Dominic Cordova CHMS 393-010 10/19/12 Assignment 4 The Bronze Screen Stereotypes are everywhere in American culture. From race to gender to class, there are sentiments toward people in every facet of life. In The Bronze Screen, the film gives light to some specific stereotypes of Latinos including the Latin lover, the greaser, the dumb/lazy Mexican, and the bandit/gangster. The film followed portrayals throughout the 19th and 20th century, but it still runs rampant today. In a new, popular show, “Sons of Anarchy,” stereotypes are basically the basis for the show.
Navarro utilizes a big portion of the book explaining La Raza Unida’s history and influences as a third party beginning from the 1960’s in Texas from where it grew out from the Chicano movement occurring during the time period. He focuses on the party’s growth from the grievances of Mexican-Americans in the Southwestern regions and how its formation was fueled by the injustices done by “the gringos”. He explains how the Chicano organizations, specifically MAYO, helped form the party and how a man named José Angel Gutiérrez was a driving force behind the party’s creation in Texas. The author then explains it success throughout its time period and how it influenced politics as a third party, he explained how it was able to be a force that was able to put Chicanos into political positions and he explains how it was a force not to be
The three articles included in this unit focus on representations of what can be called ‘Mexicanidad’. The three elements under discussion are used to identify Mexicans in the eye of others (Aztec dance, chili, the aquatic commerce of Xochimilco and Chalco), from a historical perspective and also discussing the way the community –Mexican in particular, and Latino in general- connects to their historical past through iconic symbols like the aforementioned. Garner (2009) explores Aztec dance in the context of its connection to the Sun Dances of United States and focuses her discussion on the contrasting political identity of the dancers. Although the Sun Dance and the Aztec Dance share similar roots and both of them seem to have become more
Louis Grande History 121 Professor Wolfe Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages As we have learned in this class so far, it is that the Spanish conquerors invaded Latin America and forced a culture shock upon the rural, farming Indians of Latin America. Therefore imposing the native people into peasant-like roles and dominating their society. Before I even began to read this book, I knew going into it that it was going to be difficult to get the correct perspective on the native Mexicans’ culture. Very commonly in history books, the stories of the oppressed and less fortunate are actually written by those in a position of power. It is extremely difficult to get a true sense of the illiterate culture that existed since that many of the peoples that lived within that culture were, in fact, illiterate.
Quinceanera is a book about struggles and moral beliefs of the Mexican American Family. Written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. In the film it was in Spanish with English subtitles in which the cast consisted large percentage of Latino actors, therefore focusing attention to the Latino community and subtitles in English to capture the American public as well. This book takes a depth look of the private life of one specific Mexican family which have very strong moral values towards their religious beliefs in addition to the deceptions they encounter living among minority lower class neighborhood. The main characters are Magdalena the daughter of a preacher who is about to turn fifteen but gets pregnant unexpectedly
Inti Illimani is an instrumental group from Chile. They play Latin American folk music. The group was formed by some university students from Universidad Tecnica del Estado at Santiago, Chile in 1967. The music became a big deal in Chile for their song Venceremo, in English means “We shall win” which then became the anthem of Salvador Allende. While they were on tour in Europe, during the movement on September 11, 1973 they were unable to come back to Chile.
I finally realize you used my heart as a remote control to achieve your needs. Well no more, this toy is giving his remote control to someone who will love him for real.” -Jose Alberto Amores Perros is a Mexican film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu in 2000. It is an anthology film containing three distinct stories which are connected by a car accident in Mexico City. Each of the three tales is also a reflection on the cruelty of humans toward animals and each other, showing how they may live dark or even hideous lives. Citizen Kane is a 1941 American dramatic film, and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles.
Tony Kushner was writing in a completely different time in America, and his character Joe deals with a crisis about his sexuality in Angels in America. Joe is seen to deal with the social stigmas and problems to do with homosexuality at the time of the play, and his interaction with other characters gives the audience insight into his struggle. Despite the differences between the two character depictions, the post-modernist theatre of Kushner has been influenced by O’Neill’s experiments with expressionist theatre. Eugene O’Neill wrote The Hairy Ape in the early 20th century, and it premiered on stage in March of 1922. The social and economic context in which O’Neill was formulating Yank as a character plays a role in his final depiction.