Abstract

COWAN, Peter M.. ¡ADELANTE! Conectándose al pasado, anhelando el futuro a través del discurso visual latino.Translated byTrena Brown. RMIE [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.34, pp.951-986. ISSN 1405-6666.

U.S. Latino youth create drawings inside and outside of school that express bicultural identities and feature iconography that has migrated from Mesoamerican countries. This ethnography describes these drawings as a subaltern form of visual literacy, and finds that they afford knowledgeable viewers entrance into discourses about being young and Latino. These subaltern visual literacy practices transculturated and migrated with mestizos who integrated the iconography into their visual environments and injected their visual literacy practices into the social fabric of their communities in the United States. This study explores these social practices and situates them in the historical context of the contact zone of Mesoamerican pictographic and European alphabetic literacies beginning with the Conquest.

Keywords : ethnographic research; semiotics; cultural identity; youth; migration; United States.

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