Borderlands Critical Subjectivity in Recent Chicana Art.

Women artists; Mexican Americans; Women in politics; Lopez, Yolanda; López, Alma, 1966-; Alarcon, Margaret

The Chicana artistic groups discussed in this essay have formed specifically in order to educate and activate themselves and other women on methods of overcoming systemic structures of oppression. They struggle against cultural imperialism, racism and sexism. As they become politically organized, these women use art as a means of making visible what they have come to call the strategies of cultural imperialism.The works of Yolanda Lopez, Alma Lopez, Margaret Alarcon, Patricia Valencia, and Nicole Limon were analyzed. These artists are forging new analyses and political strategies that are, in effect, reinventing progressive feminist and ethnic-based movements in more inclusive and relevant ways.