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Honoring Culture - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "destroy
        entrenched literary and visual representations that focused on Mexican Americans as receptors rather than active generators of culture" (tomas ybarro-frausto)
        songs that touched the souls of chicano/as across the USA and Mexico that brought a sense of pride to communities
        The point of the songs was to allow men to have an outlet to cry without the need to feel judged
        Performed in front of large groups of people to bring men together in an unproblematic way
  - - - Performed on special occasions to celebrate in a community
        creates a feeling of belonging to the roots even if performed in the United States
        High energy performances that outlast most of the people in attendance
  - - - creates belonging of mexican communities that migrated to the USA
        large performances with an array of instruments that all coexist
        Used to celebrate culture in a time where the culture was pushed to be forgotten
        Shined a light on communities in the USA that were being suppressed culturally to allow a voice that they could not have gotten on their own
- - - - This style was a response to the hate that these women felt at that time
        Also doubled as an insult to mainstream fashions that rejected them
        Attire was loud so that those that saw them really noticed, to be a pachuca meant the ultimate symbol of pride as a chicana
        "the whole point of this project to give people
        pause, to get people to stop, if only for a moment" (ramiro gomez)
  - - - This style connected these women to their roots to build a sense of pride
        Brings out the pride that was forgotten when mexican-amerrican immigrants lost when moving out of mexico
        It was a sub-cultural statement to battle the rockabilly movement happening at the same time
        "Our group kept gro,ving and S()On included local poets" (tomas ybarro-frausto)
  - - - created a style of fashion to fit in amongst themselves during a time when they were not accepted
        taking control of what they wear instead of society telling them what is acceptable
        "At the heart of the problem is a fundamental misunderstanding of Mexicans as a racially and/or culturally mixed people." (Amalia mesa-bains)