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Another piece I did a super long ass time ago been wanting to do more art but that wouldn’t be laggin’ it
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While doing research for a talk on the history and future of vanity, I found this incredible photograph by Max Yavno of “las pachucas” – Chicana zoot suiters, in pant suits! This archive already holds several photographs of women zoot suiters but they’re wearing skirt suits or just the pants and a top. This is such a detailed photo of the entire look of las pachucas from the hair to the shoes. Beautiful!
The photo is called “Two Women”. It was taken in Los Angeles, California in 1946.
This is my grandmother, Dominga Villegas (in the foreground) and “Mama Piedad” (in the background). I am not sure how/if they’re related. One of the houses behind them is the home that my father was born in, in Weslaco Texas. There was no running water, no electricity and they had a pump and an outhouse in the backyard. According to my father, the street was a dirt road back then and the Mexicans lived on one side of town and white people lived on the other side. The town was segregated. They may have been poor but my grandmother looks amazingly beautiful and confident in this photo.
Submitted by Dagny Villegas (Indianapolis, IN).
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Mexican American bridesmaids on car in `the flats’, 1938.
Credit: Los Angeles Public Library
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Zapatista colonel AMPARO SALGADO, Teloloapan, Guerrero, 1911
(Sara Castrejón. Archive of Enrique del Rayo Castrejón.)
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ABSTRACT: Examination of the U.S.-backed wars on drugs in Colombia and Mexico reveals that, apart from the hegemonic discourse about narcotics control, these wars reinforce the power of transnational corporations over resource-rich areas owned and used by indigenous people, peasants, and the urban poor. Case studies in Mexico demonstrate that recent assassinations of activists and intimidation of communities that are organizing against large-scale mining must be understood within the framework of militarization justified in terms of an anti-narcotics discourse. Drug war politics may thus be understood as a mechanism for promoting business-friendly policies and militarizing resource-rich areas. This politics is enshrined in the Mérida Initiative, which includes a national U.S.- style legal reform, modernization of the prison system, and the militarization and training of the federal police and other security forces, equipment transfers, and development funding designed to encourage foreign investment and further transnationalize the national economy.
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![Mariela de la Paz - Aya Mama (2000) [Chilean-born artist]Women Of The Earth: This series is the culm](https://64.media.tumblr.com/8e206d67cd7f208e3335bbc681be4de9/tumblr_nzcwboGf121uxuyseo1_1280.jpg "Mariela de la Paz - Aya Mama (2000) [Chilean-born artist]Women Of The Earth: This series is the culm")
Mariela de la Paz - Aya Mama (2000) [Chilean-born artist]
Women Of The Earth: This series is the culmination of several years of Studies of Shamanism which eventually led me to move to Norther California to join the program of Contemporary Female Shamanism at MotherPeace Institute in Oakland. My research was initially focused on the matriarchal lineage of the Mapuche, the indigenous inhabitants of Southern Chile and their Cosmovision and their Shamanic spiritual practices. As the series developed, the themes also expanded and cross over into the documentation of my experiences of Sacramental Plant Medicine. This series was developed over the course of 20 years and was complete in 2013 with my painting named “The Divine Masculine." Click here for more art
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![Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados (1950) [The Forgotten Ones, AKA “The Young and the Damned”]“](https://64.media.tumblr.com/0111d70b11b1600c30926941b8f14057/tumblr_nye4266yhm1uxuyseo1_1280.jpg "Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados (1950) [The Forgotten Ones, AKA “The Young and the Damned”]“")
Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados (1950) [The Forgotten Ones, AKA “The Young and the Damned”]
“The Forgotten is a film by Luis Bunuel (1950), which narrates the story of teenagers influenced by the environment in which they live. The filmmaker makes a crude attempt at social criticism and draws the past and present Mexico. It is a desert vision of the world where a disposed youth lives and whose only alternatives are crime and migration, product of a hostile, aggressive, and violent society. The film is said to be a sociological treatise full of nuances that reflect the current reality of youth in Mexico and moves us to deep reflection that hurts right now, considering that young people have historically been major players of the forgotten social our country.” —Maria Teresa Prieto Quezada
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Rocío Sagaón en un ensayo del ballet ‘El vuelo del alma’, mayo de 1950 México Impresión contemporánea (a partir del negativo de película de seguridad) CONACULTA. INAH. SINAFO. FN., Pachuca, Hidalgo.
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ABSTRACT: Mainstream analysis and commentary on drug trafficking and related violence in Mexico focuses overwhelmingly on the narco-cartels as sources of the problem and presents the US as a well intentioned player helping to conduct a ‘war on drugs’ out of concern for addiction, crime and violence. This article offers an alternative interpretation, grounded in critical political economy, showing that in addition to fuelling the narcotics industry in Mexico thanks to its large drug consumption and loose firearms regulations, the US shares much responsibility for its expansion thanks to its record of support for some of the main players in the drugs trade, such as the Mexican government and military, and by implementing neoliberal reforms that have increased the size of the narcotics industry. The war on drugs has served as a pretext to intervene in Mexican affairs and to protect US hegemonic projects such as NAFTA, rather than as a genuine attack on drug problems. In particular, the drugs war has been used repeatedly to repress dissent and popular opposition to neoliberal policies in Mexico. Finally, US banks have increased their profits by laundering drug money from Mexico and elsewhere; the failure to implement tighter regulations testifies to the power of the financial community in the US.
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