Rasquachismo y Demesticana

After reading the chapter Rasquachismo, I'd realized that rasquachismo is neither an idea that retains connotations of vulgarity and bad taste nor a style, but more of an attitude and state of being instead of a formal modem of art. At the beginning of this chapter, it is hard to fully understand Rasquachismo by the definition, but the author uses Luis Jiménez's Vaquero as example helps me more understand Rasquachismo clearly. "To he rasquache is to be unfettered and unrestrained, to favor the elaborate over the simple, the flamboyant over the severe"(86). In my opinion, Rasquache can attract people by using the bright color and foofaraw but it is a compendium of all the day- to-day living. The materials to be used are not thrown away but saved and recycled. In other words, it is an environmentally friendly state that using recyclables to create admirable and gorgeous artwork, which  means Rasquachismo allows for a more Chicano focus and central values.

For the chapter Domesticana, I think it is the sublimation of rasquachismo's definition in the last chapterthe. The author, Amalia Mesa-Bains, is trying to get the reader to understand that Domesticana only out of resistance to majority culture and affirmation cultural values but also from women's restrictions with the culture. It is a defiance of an imposed Anglo-American cultural identity and the defiance of restrictive gender identity within Chicano culture have inspired a female rasquachismo.

I think both Rasquachismo and domesticana is an affirmation of Anglo-American cultural identity, but the difference is that domesticate contain the gender identity within Chicano culture.