{"id":3864,"date":"2021-04-30T09:37:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T13:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2021-05-03T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T13:29:56","slug":"in-the-galleries-representations-of-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/2021\/04\/30\/in-the-galleries-representations-of-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Galleries: Representations of Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"

In her book <\/span>Borderlands\/La Fontera: The New Mestiza <\/span><\/i>(1987), Chicana theorist, scholar, and poet Gloria Anzald\u00faa states that \u201cThe U.S.-Mexican border <\/span>es una herida abierta<\/span><\/i> [an open wound] where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.\u201d The U.S.-Mexico border has long been a place where life and death decisions are made in the name of a better life. Students in<\/span> SP254: Aqu\u00ed Estamos: Latinx in the 20<\/span><\/i>th<\/span><\/i> and 21<\/span><\/i>st<\/span><\/i> Centuries<\/span><\/i> engaged with ways that representations of migration in the <\/span>Retablos<\/span><\/i> both challenge and reify racialized, gendered, and class narratives of people crossing the border. In engaging with these <\/span>Retablos<\/span><\/i> students were asked to explore the different ways in which the various mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters represented in the art put into question ideas of belonging in the U.S. The students’ interpretations reveal the complicated reality of the open wound that is the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/span><\/p>\n

-Nicol\u00e1s Ramos Flores, Assistant Professor of Spanish<\/span><\/p>\n

Students recorded their interpretations of Retablos<\/em> in the Colby Museum’s exhibition Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States. <\/em>Navigate through the playlist by selecting a video from the drop-down menu on the upper right side of the frame:<\/p>\n