the term has referred to people of Mexican descent born in the United States. The termChicanahas feministconnotationsresulting from its use by Mexican American female activists determined to raise consciousness about women’s rights within the Chicana/o community and to raise political awareness of th...
Whilst she included some images of toreadors, the main subject matter was a Mexican dancer in slow motion, which the poets viewed as a feminist parallel in rhythm to the toreador’s movements with his cape. This revisioning can be seen as a filmic intensional undoing of the performative machi...
Gary Soto’s ‘Teaching English from an Old Composition Book’ is about a teacher instructing some Mexican-American immigrant students in a night school. Soto portrays their harsh living conditions and their struggle to cope in a new culture. ‘Teaching English from an Old Composition Book’ is...
Among her influences, Long Soldier has credited the poet Orlando White (with whom she has a daughter) for her development as a writer, tellingPoets & Writersthat White introduced her to the work of Canadian poet bpNichol and American poet Aram Saroyan. She also has named Mexican painterFrida...
What sparked the Mexican-American War annexation of Texas Manifest destiny, the indian removal act, and moving out into the western part of the US is all under a bigger name called westward expansion the placing of the interest of one's own region ahead of the nation as a whole sectionalis...
Spanish and Mexican influence, white domination disguised as liberal, servitude in exchange for slavery merely because of labor laws. A bountiful county with mountains and valleys, homes in the alley and in the back, from the Ports of Long Beach to the outskirts of Lancaster, ...
Trump wants to kill the Department of Education, Attack Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security and give more tax breaks to his rich cronies. he is threatening Mass Deportations and so much more. It seems to me, the American People have been conned by a con man and criminal. People ...
American Indian mythology can be divided into three major cultural regions: North American cultures (from the Eskimos to the Indians along the Mexican border), Central and South American urban cultures, and Caribbean and South American hunting-and-gathering and farming cultures. Though each region ex...