1) As mentioned in the La Ofrenda film, students don't learn a lot about Mexico or Latin America during their time in school: "the things only hinted at in my school textbooks" (10:33). Why do we learn so little about them in our history classes and what is the resulting impact?
2) In the Introduction article, the use of spirituality and spiritual realism is shown to be frequently used in Chicana art: "the culturally hybrid, often do-it-yourself,
noninstitutional spiritualities that I was seeing in many California- and
Southwest-based Chicana artists’ literary, visual, and performance arts
as a gesture of yearning and ofrenda, or offering, toward greater personal
integrity, empowerment, and social justice" (Perez, 2). How does this empower their art or give it a bigger impact?
3) In El Mundo Feminino, it was described that the Asco group "produced a counterpoint to the traditional regional cultural politics of the Chicano movement" (Mesa-Bains, 316). Today, how are Chicana artists using urbanism to continue to empower their community, especially with the different forms of sharing art and media?
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