After reading this week's reading in Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology, I learned
about the ideologies of rasquachismo and domesticana. Although it was hard to in the beginning to grasp
the complete meaning by definition, I started to read further and realized that the same reason why
I wasn’t able to understand it in the text was that it is more of a form of art. The first reading that
was assigned discussed the term “rasquachismo” and the second reading discussed “domesticana”.
I learned that rasquachismo does not only consist of the initial thought of having a negative connotation in Mexico as being an attitude and being lower class, impoverished, and having bad taste. Rasquachismo is having to make do with what you got. Its the feeling of being the underdog but making sure that whatever you have will be enough to push you forward to strive. It’s the not-give-a-shit attitude you have about what cards you were dealt in life but ow you play them. Ybarra-Frausto also states that it is not an idea or a style but more of an attitude or a taste.
What I learned about domesticana, is that although it is in a sense a way of resistance in the Chicana/o culture. They share the concept of them both being a type of attitude rather than an idea. Domesticana is used in the same sense similar to that of rasquachismo art. The reading talked about how it is a type of reclamation of women in their domestic space like the kitchen. As for Domesticana, Amalia Mesa-Bains writes that the bedroom, as well as the kitchen, conveyed a centrality but also imprisonment for Chicanas.
After reading both assignments, I learned that these ideologies that come from the Chicana/o
culture values, it is clear that these ideologies fall under the same umbrella of attitudes and culture
but are different in many ways.
about the ideologies of rasquachismo and domesticana. Although it was hard to in the beginning to grasp
the complete meaning by definition, I started to read further and realized that the same reason why
I wasn’t able to understand it in the text was that it is more of a form of art. The first reading that
was assigned discussed the term “rasquachismo” and the second reading discussed “domesticana”.
I learned that rasquachismo does not only consist of the initial thought of having a negative connotation in Mexico as being an attitude and being lower class, impoverished, and having bad taste. Rasquachismo is having to make do with what you got. Its the feeling of being the underdog but making sure that whatever you have will be enough to push you forward to strive. It’s the not-give-a-shit attitude you have about what cards you were dealt in life but ow you play them. Ybarra-Frausto also states that it is not an idea or a style but more of an attitude or a taste.
What I learned about domesticana, is that although it is in a sense a way of resistance in the Chicana/o culture. They share the concept of them both being a type of attitude rather than an idea. Domesticana is used in the same sense similar to that of rasquachismo art. The reading talked about how it is a type of reclamation of women in their domestic space like the kitchen. As for Domesticana, Amalia Mesa-Bains writes that the bedroom, as well as the kitchen, conveyed a centrality but also imprisonment for Chicanas.
After reading both assignments, I learned that these ideologies that come from the Chicana/o
culture values, it is clear that these ideologies fall under the same umbrella of attitudes and culture
but are different in many ways.
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