Week 3: Goldman Post

This article describes Chicano art in the U.S. and how it relates historically to their past, present, and future through artistic works of art primarily produced by the artist Yolanda Lopez. It also speaks about the racism, ethnic, class and gender differences and struggles that Chicanos had to endure and learn how to surpass since historic times. As an aspiring anthropologist, context is important to our work, thus in order to understand the iconography of Chicana self-determination we must understand it in terms of race, gender, class and ethnicity. We must also be able to understand the history of how
Chicano’s viewed themselves in the historically, how they view themselves now and how they are viewed today by other people. Then we will be able to understand how Chicana/o art grew, how it progressed throughout history and where that art may lead us (perhaps into the future). Goldman also provides definitions for the meanings of these terms i.e. race, ethnicity, gender, and class which is helpful for the reader.
One piece, by Yolanda Lopez, which I believe speaks of race, gender, ethnicity and class is the “Guadalupe Triptych” in which women (not men) are emphasized and not just any women, it is “normal” everyday women who are important to Yolanda Lopez and they are not wealthy but they certainly are Chicana women. It is also important to note that these women are represented in the Guadalupe form (which is very important to Mexicans). They are women who Yolanda Lopez deems strong and persevering women in their own way.