Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Mexican artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena.
Last updated on November 30, 2024.
Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican/Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. Gómez-Peña has created work in multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, photography and installation art. His fifteen books include essays, experimental poetry, performance scripts, photographs and chronicles in both English, Spanish and Spanglish. He is a founding member of the pioneering art collective Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo (1985-1992) and artistic director of the performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra.

All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers. — © Guillermo Gomez-Pena
All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers.
The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable), avoids our indigenous cultural heritage and links us directly with Spain. Worse yet, it possesses connotations of upward mobility and political obedience.
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