The Palimpsest

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The exhibition looks at the Palimpsest that shaped many of the lives of Mexican–Americans. It expresses the struggles of people who felt like they have been forcefully silenced but in an ironic twist who worked as a community to represent their race. Chicano art has displayed a rage in society, Identity, unity, racism, social justice, education, sexism and culture. In the exhibit, Beyond the Physical Borders of Aztlan: Chicana and Chicano art as a Palimpsest, one can see all those elements come to play. A group exhibition featuring eight Chicano/a artists by Xavier Viramon, Alma Lopez, Jose Antonio Burciaga, Gloria Anzaldua, Leo Limon, Linda Vallejo, Fabian Debora and Antonio Rael have showed in art the palimpsest that is Aztlan. The work

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