Visualizing imperial encounters: PLACA and US-Central American solidarity murals in San Francisco’s Mission District

IF 0.7 Q3 SOCIOLOGY
Mauricio Ernesto Ramírez
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This article examines two 1984 murals—Keeping the Peace in Central America and Culture Contains the Seed of Resistance, Which Blossoms into the Flower of Liberation—painted in San Francisco’s Mission District by members of PLACA, a multi-ethnic collective of thirty-six mural activists. I discuss how the artists depicted imperial encounters in their murals dedicated to US-Central American solidarity as a strategy for building transnational support for Central American liberation movements in the 1980s. PLACA transformed Balmy Alley by creating twenty-seven murals protesting US intervention in Central America and celebrating Central American culture. The collective played a pivotal role in transforming Balmy Alley and manifested the larger Central American solidarity movement taking place across the United States.

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将帝国相遇视觉化:旧金山传教区的 PLACA 和美国-中美洲团结壁画
本文研究了两幅 1984 年的壁画--《在中美洲维持和平》和《文化蕴含着抵抗的种子,绽放出解放之花》--这两幅壁画是由 PLACA(一个由 36 名壁画活动家组成的多民族集体)成员在旧金山传教区绘制的。我将讨论艺术家们如何在他们的壁画中描绘帝国的遭遇,并将其作为一种策略,在 20 世纪 80 年代为中美洲解放运动建立跨国支持。PLACA 创作了 27 幅壁画,抗议美国对中美洲的干预,并颂扬中美洲文化,从而改变了巴尔米巷。该集体在改造巴尔米胡同方面发挥了关键作用,并体现了在美国各地开展的更大规模的中美洲团结运动。
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Latino Studies
Latino Studies SOCIOLOGY-
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期刊介绍: Latino Studies has established itself as the leading, international peer-reviewed journal for advancing interdisciplinary scholarship about the lived experience and struggles of Latinas and Latinos for equality, representation, and social justice. Sustaining the tradition of activist scholarship of the founders of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Puerto Rican Studies, the journal critically engages the study of the local, national, transnational, and hemispheric realities that continue to influence the Latina and Latino presence in the United States. It is committed to developing a new transnational research agenda that bridges the academic and non-academic worlds and fosters mutual learning and collaboration among all the Latino national groups. Latino Studies provides an intellectual forum for innovative explorations and theorization. We welcome submissions of original research articles of up to 8,000 words, from scholars and practitioners in the national and international research communities. In addition to scholarly articles, we also invite other type of submissions. Vivencias or ''reports from the field'' are short personal essays between 2000-3000 words that describe and analyze significant local issues, struggles and debates affecting the lives of Latinas/os in different regions of the country. We also welcome interviews with Latinas/os who are contributing in their local communities or nationwide (e.g. authors, artists, community activists, union leaders, etc.). Our aim in publishing the ''reports'' is to inform readers about events that are sometimes over-looked by the national and regional media.The Reflexiones Pedagógicas section includes short essays between 2000-3000 words that address issues of pedagogy and curriculum. This section contributes toward the development and institutionalization of our field in the academy. Páginas Recuperadas are short essays between 2000-3000 words that seek to recover archival documents. These essays make visible, historically significant achievements by individuals, and pivotal events in the experience of Latinas/os in the United States. El Foro is an occasional section that provides a space for essays of approximately 6000 words, addressing current events, in an effort to further engage our readers in a dialogue on the pressing issues affecting Latina/o communities today.Book and media reviews are devoted to scholarship/media on the experience of Latinas/os in the United States. Reviews are no more than 1000 words.
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