Chicana artists "wanted to extend their vision by sampling the vocabularies and sedimented artistic traditions of their own communities," characterized by amalgamation and fusion of traditions across the Americas (Ybarra-Frausto 12).
I started a film production company and produced "Las Mujeres de la Caucus
Chicana," "Women of the
Chicana Caucus."
Chicana and Chicano Mental Health provides a fine model to address the special mental health and service challenges affecting Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans, and comes from an author who holds more than thirty years of experience as a clinical psychologist.
Out of the margins; identity formation in contemporary
Chicana writings.
In her classic Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) Gloria Anzaldua identifies the position of feminism on the borders, an open wound for Anzaldua, and it has become a reference point for the representation of
Chicana subjectivity.
Thus, this article documents how we, two
Chicana tenured professors from immigrant and working-class backgrounds, drew upon our graduate school experiences as resources for navigating the tenure track.
The keynote address was based on my forthcoming book Dissonant Divas in
Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda (University of Minnesota Press, 2012).
As Debra Castillo describes in her article "
Chicana Feminist Criticism" (1-19), "until astonishingly recently, Anglophone
Chicana literature has been institutionally homeless, perceived as marginal, or second rate, thus not respected within English Department circles," yet critics have also "made Anzaldua 'the representative' of 'the border'" (Baca 21).
To breathe life into her tale, Blackwell taps deeply personal oral histories of the
Chicana feminist pioneer Anna NietoGomez, a leader of Las Hijas de Cuahtemoc, a feminist group founded in 1968, and its surviving members.
* ON CREATING HER ALTER EGO: La Chica Boom is informed by my Queer
Chicana wit.
This article analyzes patterns of change offered by the theater of the marginalized, with particular emphasis on Hispanic Americans and Cherrie Moraga's Watsonville: Some Place Not Here--a play by a
Chicana writer.