{"id":21654,"date":"2012-03-22T23:37:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T23:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=21654"},"modified":"2012-03-23T05:04:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T05:04:11","slug":"visualizando-la-conciencia-mestiza-the-relation-of-gloria-anzaldua%e2%80%99s-mestiza-consciousness-to-mexican-american-performance-and-poster-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=21654","title":{"rendered":"Visualizando la Conciencia Mestiza: The Relation of Gloria Anzald\u00faa\u2019s Mestiza Consciousness to Mexican American Performance and Poster Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/scholarcommons.usf.edu\/etd\/3591\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visualizando la Conciencia Mestiza: The Relation of Gloria Anzald\u00faa\u2019s Mestiza Consciousness to Mexican American Performance and Poster Art<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of South Florida<br \/>\n2010<br \/>\n53 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maria Cristina Serrano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Liberal Arts Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies College of Arts and\u00a0 Sciences University of South Florida<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This thesis explores <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gloria_E._Anzald%C3%BAa\" target=\"_blank\">Gloria Anzald\u00faa\u2019s<\/a> notion of <em>mestiza consciousness <\/em>and its relation to Mexican American performance and poster art. It examines how the traditional conceptions of <em>mestizo <\/em>identity were redefined by Anzald\u00faa\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3778\">Borderlands\/La Frontera<\/a> <\/em>in an attempt to eradicate oppression through a change of consciousness. Anzaldua\u2019s conceptions are then applied to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guillermo_G%C3%B3mez-Pe%C3%B1a\" target=\"_blank\">Guillermo G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a\u2019s<\/a> performance art discussing the intricacies and complexities of his performances as examples of <em>mestiza <\/em>consciousness. This thesis finally analyzes various Mexican American posters in relation to both Anzald\u00faa and Gomez-Pe\u00f1a\u2019s art works. It demonstrates that the similarities in the artist\u2019s treatment of hybridity illustrate a progressive change in worldview, thus exhibit <em>mestiza <\/em>consciousness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>List of Figures<\/li>\n<li>Abstract<\/li>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 1: Gloria Anzald\u00faa\u2019s <em>Mestiza<\/em> Consciousness<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 2: The Relation of <em>Mestiza Consciousness<\/em> to Guillermo Gomez-Pe\u00f1a\u2019s <em>Border Brujo<\/em> and The <em>Couple in a Cage<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 3: The Creative Synthesis in Mexican American Poster Art<\/li>\n<li>Conclusions<\/li>\n<li>References<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>List of Figures<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Figure 2.1: Still from <em>Border Brujo<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure 2.2: Gomez-Pe\u00f1a as <em>Border Brujo<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure 2.3: Fusco and Gomez-Pe\u00f1a in <em>Couple in the Cage<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure 2.4: Close-up of performers<\/li>\n<li>Figure 3.1: Andrew Sermeno, <em>Huelga! (Strike!)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure 3.2: Unknown, <em>Tierra o Muerte! Venceremos<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure 3.3: Diego Rivera, <em>The History of Mexico: The Ancient Indian World<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure 3.4: David Alfaro Siqueiros, <em>Cuauhtemoc Against the Myth<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure 3.5: Malaquias Montoya, <em>Vietnam, Aztl\u00e1n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure 3.6: Xavier Miramontes, <em>Boycott Grapes (Boicotea las Uvas)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure 3.7: Rodolfo \u201cRudy: Cuellar, <em>Bilingual Education Says Twice as Much<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure 3.8: Jose Montoya, Rodolfo \u201cCorky\u201d Gonzalez, and Louie \u201cThe Foot\u201d Gonzalez, <em>Jose Montoya\u2019s Pachuco Art: A Historical Update<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure 3.9: Victor Ochoa, <em>Border Bingo<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure 3.10: Laura Molina, <em>Cihualyaomiquiz, The Jaguar<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure 3.11: Tina Hernandez, <em>Ya Basta!<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure 3.12: DC Comics, <em>Wonder Woman<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure 3.13: J. Howard Mitchell, <em>We Can Do It<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire thesis \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/scholarcommons.usf.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=4858&amp;context=etd\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visualizando la Conciencia Mestiza: The Relation of Gloria Anzald\u00faa\u2019s Mestiza Consciousness to Mexican American Performance and Poster Art University of South Florida 2010 53 pages Maria Cristina Serrano A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Liberal Arts Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies College of Arts and\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[838,1196,8,25],"tags":[1474,10139,10137,10136,10138,10121],"class_list":["post-21654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dissertations","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-gloria-anzaldua","tag-guillermo-gomez-pena","tag-maria-c-serrano","tag-maria-cristina-serrano","tag-maria-serrano","tag-university-of-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}