Chicana Poetry and Music as an Act of Rebellion.
Chicana Poetry and Music as an Act of Rebellion. Celeste De Luna Art~ "Tu Cuerpo Es Una Frontera." “To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.” Gloria Anzaldùa We continue our in-depth journey on the Chicana identity through poetry and music. In this context, I will involve two leading figures, the writer Gloria Anzaldua and the Chicano singer Lila Downs. The Chicano term originally used to indicate American natives of Mexican origin, or Mexico Americans, underwent a semantic evolution, taking on an explicitly political connotation, after the Second World War, when veterans who had fought in Europe in the name of freedom and equality, when they returned to the United States, their homeland, they found that they were still considered second class citizens, discriminated against and excluded from political representation. Therefore, with the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s, the Mexican-American community rose against the racial disc...