Borderlines of labor : Margarita Cabrera’s sculptures and the (un)American dream

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dc.contributor.advisorSmith, Cherise, 1969-
dc.creatorDickerson, Sarah Anneen
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-02T21:41:45Zen
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T22:27:16Z
dc.date.available2018-01-22T22:27:16Z
dc.date.issued2014-12en
dc.date.submittedDecember 2014en
dc.date.updated2015-02-02T21:41:46Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractThis thesis contextualizes the work of artist Margarita Cabrera within Chicano, postcolonial, and feminist theories, and specifically places her work within discourses surrounding the United States-Mexico border. I address the evolution of Cabrera’s sculptural work from her initial Desert Plants to the collaborative, community-based workshop Space in Between, which prompted her incorporation of Florezca, a for-profit social enterprise. I discuss how Cabrera’s collaborative art-making process and founding of a corporation are strategic methods to challenge and attempt to change oppressive political systems in the United States that disenfranchise undocumented Latino immigrants.en
dc.description.departmentArt Historyen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/28252en
dc.subjectMargarita Cabreraen
dc.subjectChicano arten
dc.subjectSpace in betweenen
dc.subjectFlorezcaen
dc.subjectMexican arten
dc.subjectBorder arten
dc.titleBorderlines of labor : Margarita Cabrera’s sculptures and the (un)American dreamen
dc.typeThesisen

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