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Cuteness And Curanderismo, Mylan T. Nguyen
Cuteness And Curanderismo, Mylan T. Nguyen
Art Theses and Dissertations
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In this paper I analyze the trajectory of concepts and explorations in my art practice during my graduate studies from 2019-2022. I examine how an interest in magic, healing and interconnectedness has led me to create illustration, ceramic, and risograph art that interprets the stories and practices I have encountered around Curanderismo, and Nahuales. I examine how these stories are shaped and also celebrate the wealth of healing knowledge they can provide.
Becoming Indian: The Origins Of Indigeneity Among Chicana/Os In Texas, Ruben A. Arellano
Becoming Indian: The Origins Of Indigeneity Among Chicana/Os In Texas, Ruben A. Arellano
History Theses and Dissertations
This study explores the idea of Mexican-American indigenous identity, or indigeneity. I argue that modern Mexican-American indigeneity progressed from the Chicana/o movement’s notion of belonging as a primordial people of Aztlan to the full-fledged embrace of Native American identity. This idea of being indigenous is traced to the colonial writers and thinkers, criollo patriots, mestizo nationalists, and the indigenists intellectuals of twentieth-century Mexico. The evolution of ethnic Mexican indigeneity culminated with cultural extremists in the first half of the last century who assumed a neo-Aztec identity. They in turn gave way to the neo-Mexika identity that emerged in the second …