--- title: "2 Amalia Mesa-Bains Quotes - Famous Psychologist" description: "American artist (born 1943)... | Amalia Mesa-Bains, is a Chicana curator, author, visual artist, and educator. She is best known for her large-scale ins..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b76/amalia-mesa-bains-102512_appropriation_what-you-have-now-then-is-the-marketing_107592.jpg" --- # Amalia Mesa-Bains (1943) Psychologist **2** quotes in **7** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Amalia Mesa-Bains is a psychologist. ## Quick Facts About Amalia Mesa-Bains Born July 10, 1943 Profession Psychologist ## About Amalia Mesa-Bains American artist (born 1943)... \| Amalia Mesa-Bains, is a Chicana curator, author, visual artist, and educator. She is best known for her large-scale installations that reference home altars and ofrendas. Her work engages in a conceptual exploration of Mexican American women's spiritual practices that addresses colonial and imperial ## Quotes by Amalia Mesa-Bains > [“What you have now then is the marketing of racialized identities as tools for consumption. And certain racialized bodies and images are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amalia-mesa-bains/what-you-have-now-then-is-the-marketing-of-racialized-identities-as/) [Amalia Mesa-Bains](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amalia-mesa-bains/) [Appropriation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/appropriation/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b76/amalia-mesa-bains-102512_appropriation_what-you-have-now-then-is-the-marketing_107592.jpg) > [“When you were talking about the caste system, I was thinking about how Mexicans still have to come to terms with this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amalia-mesa-bains/when-you-were-talking-about-the-caste-system-i-was-thinking-about-how/) [Amalia Mesa-Bains](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amalia-mesa-bains/) [Bigotry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bigotry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df0/amalia-mesa-bains-102512_bigotry_when-you-were-talking-about-the-caste-sy_3098224.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amalia-mesa-bains/#itemlist", "name": "Amalia Mesa-Bains Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“What you have now then is the marketing of racialized identities as tools for consumption. 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