Word: chicana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aunt Carmen's Book of Practical Saints, the newest work from Chicana poet Pat Mora, is an attempt to create a literature to accompany the particular religious traditions of New Mexico. Overflowing with luscious color photographs of religious folk art (everything from pine wood statuettes of Jesus to napkins embroidered with the images of saints), Mora's book consciously tries to capture the combination of humility and religious pride that makes folk art so captivating. She attempts to give a voice to the shaky hands that manifested their faith through carving and sewing and painting...
...this, Mora wisely decides to inhabit the mind of an aged Chicana named Aunt Carmen. The poems in Mora's books are presented as the secret prayers of Aunt Carmen, a strong-willed eighty-year-old house cleaner, to the various saints that make up the religious infrastructure of Southwestern Catholicism. Through Carmen, Mora explores the issues at the heart of religious faith...
...exclude them from the group, and you can't disrespect the wishes of the founders of the groups," says Delgadillo, who is Chicana. "Those are the two issues you have to address...
...have come to Harvard in the past few years have come through the visiting professorships set up by FAS in conjunction with the Harvard Foundation. Maria Herrera-Sobek, a visiting professor last year through the folklore and mythology Department, is not only a distinguished scholar in the field of Chicana writers but is also the head of the Department for Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Hector Calderon, of the University of California at Los Angeles, also an eminent scholar specializing in Chicano narrative, it teaching two courses in the English Department this semester, Juan Flores...
...school's Chicanos and about 1% of total enrollment -- staged a protest that escalated into a window- breaking skirmish with police. Next came a hunger strike by five students and one faculty member. In June UCLA backed down, creating the Cesar Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana (in deference to women) and Chicano Studies...