With all due respect to @REMEZCLA and the wonderful @SaraYimon, I think I this is incorrect....https://twitter.com/remezcla/status/814184152056680448 …
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So,
@UnsettledCity actually responded to my tweet about cropping Hopi women out of his photo. He later deleted it.pic.twitter.com/CPtc1lxX9j
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A *lot* of media has used
@UnsettledCity's claims about this sole woman from the Mexican Revolution, and also erase Hopi women and girls. -
As a well-known academic,
@UnsettledCity's word carries weight. So much that he's helped create the narrative of Princess Leia's hair now. -
But anyway. It turns out the woman from the Mexican Revolution in that photo is Clara de la Rocha. A lot to address here.
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Lots of people, incl
@map_alfaro, insist that "Mexican women are indigenous women," which is meant to cancel out my point about Hopi women. -
Lots of people in my mentions suggesting that the woman in the photo is indigenous and that she picked up that hair from Hopi women. Ahem.
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Behold, the genealogy for Clara de la Rocha, pictured here. She's directly descended from European colonizers. http://delarochahistory.com/?page_id=7364 pic.twitter.com/AR3vuXe23L
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Read for yourself how this woman's family took land from indigenous peoples as they settled northern Mexico. http://delarochahistory.com/?page_id=7364 pic.twitter.com/rfSVRzcjsB
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That doesn't take away that Clara de la Rocha fought in the Mexican Revolution. But it's not like she was indigenous. She was no peasant.
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@Pochdigeno, who tweeted at me that they're a geneticist, implying that Clara de la Rocha was indigenous. Right. -
Clara de la Rocha's family was so rich they filled and entire library with gold and silver. Revolution, tho. Tuh.pic.twitter.com/sx3KHODBWY
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Where did all that gold and silver come from? From the same indigenous peoples who were killed and displaced. Resources. Land. Life.
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So
@UnsettledCity's viral FB post is about a Mexican revolutionary woman. A *very* rich woman who's European family settled northern Mexico. -
Lost in all of that? Hopi women. Hopi girls. Erased in preference for a tidy narrative about revolution... that lacks nuance.
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I'll add one more thing and get back to my Saturday: Clara de la Rocha does not represent all Mexican revolutionary women, of course.
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There were lots of indigenous women who were part of the Mexican Revolution. But different women fought for different things. Again: nuance.
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this is not the only culture "borrowing" that Lucas has done, Queen Amidalas costume was Mongolianpic.twitter.com/cU1o0HxbwX
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this is something costume designers are trained to do, esp in sci-fi and fantasy stuff
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lots of this in the Lord of the Rings behind the scenes stuff, and Julie Taymor is def guilty w the Lion King
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it's all done so naturally and uncritically. designers don't get that attn to theory as part of their training.
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I appreciate your insight! I went to art school; ppl in A&D aren't necessarily taught to think critically abt theory
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