Rasquachismo Has Officially Entered the Art Historical Canon

Most people probably think of San Antonio as the “home of the Alamo,” and while the city may be the birthplace of a certain Texan imaginary, it’s also given rise to concepts that help visualize American culture in less nationalistic ways. One of those concepts is rasquachismo, an aesthetic sensibility that acts as a way to understand “an attitude or taste” prevalent within art made by Chicanos, as scholar Tomás Ybarra-Frausto wrote in his 1989 essay theorizin