Syncretism Vs Mexican Religion

My paper will talk about the syncretism between Pre-Columbian religion and beliefs of conquered civilizations. New or variant thoughts and practices are created when two or more civilizations merge. Mainstream narratives of Chicana/o cultural practices and lived experiences. Culture is negotiated and practiced, and how Chicanas/os are creating a third space to articulate their voice. Chicana/o popular culture as a way to create spaces, voice, and an identity that challenges conventional notions of Latinas/os in the U.S. which includes music, art, literature, theatre, etc. that can be a way to express quotidian forms of resistance. Even though some people believe that these events do not happen in the United States while other people

Chicano Studies had showed me the idea of "marianismo" the Chicana is often seen as the "Virgin Mary" that she is a saintly and motherly, innocent, a virgin, a wife, and is often viewed as a sex object as discussed in my Chicano Studies 112 class by Daniel Topete but Chicanas often challenged these thoughts. Chicanas would focus on literature as means of expression, but they also foster a sense of identity through art. This medium provides Chicanas with a powerful, physical workspace to express themselves as strong, independent, equal level as men. Idianizing Catholicism by Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez stated, “In the give and take of struggle, Mexicana’s and Chicanas have learned to fashion faith and religion in our own image: the image of our gender, our “race”/ ethnicity, our class affiliation, and the particulars of the local habitat and regional history.” which portray that the women had a view already set in mind for them

This thought out process is not supposed to benefit the minorities but to keep us down in the lower middleclass and lower class which states, “Regardless of how the official poverty line is defined, in California as elsewhere, poverty has definite racial patterns.” which this system is targeting race, culture, and ethnicity. When migration is occurring, the United States sets in motion discernible stages of transition, settlement, and assimilation. The definition of assimilation in the reading states,” Assimilation is viewed as the process where subsequent generations embrace Americanness by speaking English, losing ethnic identifiers, engaging in upward mobility, eventually marrying into mainstream society, and experiencing Anglo conformity.” which is a major issue for Mexican Americans, Latino/a, and Chicano/a. The only privileged ones are considered white American male which is stated, “Racial formations are always actively constructed and the referents inherently unstable, open to multiple meanings in particular times and places. Racial categories, then, are not preexisting but emerge out of racial projects in which the content and salience of racial categories are constructed so as to enforce white privilege.” which