El Viacrucis del Inmigrante and Other Public Processions
El Viacrucis del Inmigrante and Other Public Processions
This chapter describes the second practice the Guadalupan devotees of New York City frequently engage in—the performance of the Stations of the Cross, or el Viacrucis, which occurs on Good Friday each year. Parish-based and citywide performances of the Stations of the Cross differ in their purposes and intent, serving both as a means in which groups negotiate their roles vis-á-vis each other and map parish bounds but also for the comités to rehearse their groupness against imagined outsiders. After all, the space carved out by the different Viacrucis processions is not, in all cases, a Mexican or immigrant space, but is very differently projected outward to passersby and other groups, as well as inward, in its work of defining an operative “we.”
Keywords: Stations of the Cross, el Viacrucis, Good Friday, parish processions, groupness
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