Final Flashcards
Yolanda López
Feminist Artist, who recreated the Virgen de Guadalupe Series
Attended San Diego State
Purpose was to reclaim the image of Guadalupe to who we want to be now.
Deborah Kuetzpalin Vasquez
Her mother said Debora “era puro corazon”
As a young girl she drew eyebrows and tattoos on her dolls
Grandmother taught her about colors and artistic touch
Attended Guadalupe Cultural Center
Purpose: Chicana Power; drew woman superheros to portray strength against male violence
Chicana/o Art
represents political and global issues
started in 1960’s
Baby Citlali
Painting of a male baby, who was a machista created by Debora
Gloria Anzaldúa
Wrote Borderlands, a poet
switches languages
also wrote “La conciencia de la Mestiza”
Mestiza Consciousness
a poem written by Gloria Anzaldua
about working together and not throwing any part of the mixture away
“We are the porous rock in the stone metate squatting on the ground”
Sleep Dealer
A syfy movie. It shows a negative path that can be taken if there continues to be exploitation of labor and privatization of natural resources
Aqua-terrorist
A threat to the water resource that the US controls
Memo
The main character in the film Sleep dealer
Luz
- Writer that wrote about Memos story
* Sold his story to a random person that worked for the Government
Chicana Feminism
A group of social theories that analyze the historical social political and economical rules of mexican american chicana woman in the US.
Club Las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc
- Desendant of las hijas de cuauhtemoc
- Anna Nieto Gomez a founder
- Began meeting in 1960’s
- 1971 formal agendas, goals & beliefs
Las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc
Founded 1906 fought for woman suffrage by porfirio diaz
Dream Act
- Has not been passed
- If it passes undocumented people will get legalized for a certain amount of years
- Will enable immigrants to receive financial aid, and allow them to serve for the military
- Dream act got rejected by only 5 votes in 2010
REAL Hope Act
- In the State of Washington
- Allows immigrants to receive state aid
- Protects them from deportation
- Took affect June 2014
- Passed February 26 2014
Justice for Janitors
Began in 1985 in Denver
LA wages drop for $7.00 to $5.00 (1980)
Rocio Saenz
Alliances with churches, progressive organizations
Rocio Saenz
Chicana feminist
Leader for Justice for janitors in Boston
Made a movie where they changed her role to a male because they didn’t want women to be seen as leaders.
NAFTA
U.S., Canada, Mexico January 1, 1994 Influx of cheap corn into Mexico Unsold the small farmer Many indigenous people believed: Privatization of the land would lead to the death of their culture
Bracero Programs
Allowed immigrants from Mexico to come into the U.S. and work
Began 1939 with 3 million people lasted 1964
When the U.S. entered war
Needed workers to do agricultural work
Mexico was allies
EPZs
Export Processing Zone
Región of a country dedicated to promoting industrial or commercial exports
High Crime rate
Maquiladoras
Factories near border
Mainly consisted of women workers
Juárez murders
Murders of more than 400 woman in Juarez being murdered
All young
No formal investigation has been done
Casa Amiga
Founded by Esther Chavez 1998 refugee for the woman from juarez
Central American Immigration, 1980s
Hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Nicaraguans fled north from civil war, repression, and economic devastation.U.S. Congress passed the Refugee Act, a humanitarian law intended to expand eligibility for political asylum in the United States.
Sanctuary Movement
A campaign that provided a safe haven for refugees from the central american countries.
provided legal advice
Ronald Reagan
Had an effect on El Salvador and Nicaragua
Sent millions to Nicaragua for military aid to overthrow the sandinistas government
Sent billions to El Salvador to fuel a civil war and bring down the communists
he increased funding to INS the IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
Border Militarization
Was during the ronald reagan times in Operation Wetback
militarized with a 150 mile long border
border patrol abuse increased
Operation Gatekeeper forced undocumented immigrants to cross dangerous terrain
Gloria Molina
Was the first Chicana/ American politician who became a member of the LA county board of authority
(Democrat)
Zapatistas
The group against NAFTA that was created because of the cheap incoming corn into Mexico that was underselling the small farmers
