Your third Reading Response Assignment must be submitted via Canvas. You must discuss “Ester Hernandez: Sun Mad” (reading 7.3) from Chapter 7 in Voces de Aztlán. Your response should between 400-500 words total. Your response should between 400-500 words total and please note that these should be well crafted and well organized paragraphs – these should not be a list of bullets points or fragmented ideas thrown together. They need to be complete and composed paragraphs.
In general these responses need to focus mostly on an interrogation of the reading; how does the knowledge presented help us understand the specific historical circumstances and how does that knowledge relate to larger themes presented in the lectures, videos and readings?
You must focus your response on the “why it’s important,” question, and you must commit a majority of your words to this question.
Also don’t just tell me that its important, provide specific examples of how and why this source demonstrates, reveals, or underscores the significant themes and ideas that you have been reading about in the textbook, listening to in the lectures, and watching in the video segments
Please consider some of the questions below as a way to organize your thoughts or highlight the most important aspects of the source
As you are reading please consider these critical aspects of the chapter:
Significance of Political Posters
Association of labor and environmental practices
Connection between the Chicana/o Movement (CCM) and art
Consider answering some of these questions in your response:
Summarize some of the conditions that the Sun Mad poster is addressing.
Describe how activism can inform artistic practice.
Paraphrase the passage “Hernandez’s print is important as a vibrant example of Chicano political art, an early dramatization of environmental awareness and a potent subversion of corporate branding.”