Take a drive around Los Angeles and you will see at least one wall mural throughout your city drive. Elaborate and colorful, or dark and ominous covering the wall of either a business or building. Wall murals throughout history have … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Images courtesy of: truefresco.net, paintermagazine.co.uk Painting by: Diego Rivera In my project, I explored different versions of La Llorona stories across cultures. I wanted to explore why these stories are so pervasive and enduring, what purpose they serve and to … Continue reading
The last mural I visited was The Greatest Love painted by Paul Botello in 1992 located on the corner of Cesar Chavez and Soto Blvd in East Los Angeles. The Greatest Love has various images and symbols that all tie together … Continue reading
Being a Studio Arts/ Graphic Design minor, I wanted to not only create a blog post, but also incorporate an art piece into my final. Wanting to convey a type of Chicana/o Gothic art piece for this class, I first … Continue reading
INTRODUCTION Here is the second installment of my short story “The Petal” which is inspired by the events narrated in Maria Cristina Mena’s “The Vine Leaf”, told from the perspective of the painter. While thinking what works I … Continue reading
For my final project, I chose to make a Tumblr dedicated to La Llorona. Instead of focusing on a specific aspect of La Llorona, my Tumblr is a mash up of all things related. In the first blog post, I … Continue reading
Another profound element of the Chicana feminist movement is the formation of Chicana gangs and gang members. The roles of females in gangs undermines social issues involved with sexual exploitation, difficulty establishing identity related to gender, and the breaking of … Continue reading
What forms of oppression cause the Chicana feminist movement? The general aspects of oppression stem from discrimination against gender, race, religion, and class. The sources of this oppression originate both from a selected group of caucasian population, men within the … Continue reading
I decided to do my project on Chicana feminism because it is a rich subject that has had a lot of light shed on it throughout this course. A lot of the characters we have met in readings have been … Continue reading
(nehta.org) Within Their Dogs Came With Them there is a constant recurring motif of isolation throughout the novel amongst all characters and situations. Segregation of communities created by the freeways and helicopters, the loss of parents, siblings, and friends is … Continue reading