| Brian Eno – Baby's On Fire Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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| At the Drive-In – Rascuache Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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re: meaning of the word rascuache the following is from an interview with Ilan Stavens from an MSNBC interview about Spanglish. Stavens is Professor of Latin American and Latino studies at Amherst College and the author of: Spanglish: The Making of A New American Language. NB: Stavens himself is a controversial figure within the Chicano/Latino community because they claim he is not a native speaker, but Anglo and an academic. (In some circles this means you have no right to write about certain subjects.) Stavens is quoted: "Considered kitsch. Kitsch that is embraceable, empowering. It’s the equivalent of the rascuache, kitsch with an ethnic twist. Chicanos in the 1960s dressing like Tin-Tan were rascuache. For a while, parents bought your cheap slippers at Kmart, and everybody looked down at you in the neighborhood because you didn’t have the slippers or the T shirts or the nice jacket that other kids had. But there came a time in the ’60s when they said “well, let’s buy those slippers because that is the culture that we come from and it’s a form of empowerment." see the article: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3069153/ |
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