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Una Mestiza
The Una Mestiza ("A Mestiza"), sometimes referred to as La Mestiza ("The Mestiza"), is an 1887 painting by Filipino painter and hero Juan Luna. The masterpiece is also known as La mestiza en su tocador which translates into English as The Mestiza at Her Dressing Table or Mestiza Lady at Her Dresser. "Una Mestiza" is also alternately called Charing. Coincidentally, this alternate title is the nickname of Luna's sister-in-law Rosario Melgar. Luna donated "Una
brings about the notion of shifts to borders.
Atravesando Fronteras/ Crossing Borders Chapter 7: La Conciencia de la Mestiza / Towards a New Consciousness.
“From this racial, ideological, cultural and biological crosspollenization, an “alien” consciousness is presently in the making- a new mestiza consciousness, una conciencia demujer. It is a consciousness of the Borderlands.”In this chapter, Anzaldúa speaks about the mestiza. "La mestiza", is a product transfer of the cultural and spiritual values one group to another. She goes on