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Jesus Barraza, Dignidad Rebelde
born El Paso (Texas) 1976
Edward Said
2005
screenprint on paper
Museum purchase through the Samuel and Blanche Koffler Acquisition Fund, 2020.39.8
For some Chicano activists and artists, the struggles of Palestinians and Chicanos share important commonalities: a connection to ancestral homelands, contested borders, and the reclamation of land. To visualize these connections and express his solidarity with Palestinians, Barraza portrays scholar Edward Said alongside a map of Palestine. Said is best known for his groundbreaking book Orientalism (1978), which critiqued how the West portrayed and perceived the Middle East. Said, a Palestinian American, also publicly supported a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |