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Article: Notes on Mexican art, social movements, and Anzaldua's "conocimiento".
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- Social Justice
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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Breaking out of your mental and emotional prison and deepening the range of perception enables you to link inner reflection and vision--the mental, emotional, instinctive, imaginal, spiritual, and the subtle bodily awareness--with social, political action and lived experiences to generate subversive knowledges.--Gloria Anzaldua (2002: 542)
IN ADDITION TO BEING ARTISTS, ELOY TARCISIO, FRANCISCO TOLEDO, LUIS ZARATE, Niceforo Urbieta, and Marcela, Vera, whose work I discuss here, have been protagonists in several of Mexico s contemporary social movements. Yet their role as social change agents is not well understood or appreciated by most scholars of social ...