Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Rasquache sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Rasquache (1960s – Present), it traces two movements that shaped it, all well-established links: Assemblage and Folk art.
Rasquachismo (also known as rascuachismo or rasquache/rascuache style) is a theory developed by Chicano scholar Tomás Ybarra-Frausto to describe "a perspective of the oppressed, a view from los de abajo" in working class Chicano communities that uses elements of "hybridization, juxtaposition and integration" as a means of empowerment and resistance. Rasquachismo is commonly used to describe the aesthetics present in working class Chicano art and Mexican art movements that "make the most from the least." It has been described as a worldview, the "view of the oppressed, which combines inventiveness with a survivalist attitude." Artists often represent experiences of their own life in the "barrio" or the experiences of being Mexican and Chicano. Read more ↗