In Chicano/a popular culture, nothing signifies the working class, highly-layered, textured, and metaphoric sensibility known as "rasquache aesthetic" more than black velvet art. The essays in this volume examine that aesthetic by looking at icons, heroes, cultural myths, popular rituals, and border issues as they are expressed in a variety of ways. The contributors dialectically engage methods of popular cultural studies with discourses of gender, sexuality, identity politics, representation, and cultural production. In addition to a hagiography of "locas santas," the book includes studies of the sexual politics of early Chicana activists in the Chicano youth movement, the representation of Latina bodies in popular magazines, the stereotypical renderings of recipe books and calendar art, the ritual performance of Mexican femaleness in the quinceañera, and mediums through which Chicano masculinity is measured.
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Alicia Gaspar de Alba is Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UCLA.
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In many ways it is no surprise that a novel set in a small town in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico-where penitent brothers and miracle-seeking pilgrims visit the sacred grounds of Chimayo-would intergrate the medieval religious genre of the vidas de santos (the lives of saints). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Mexican American, Southern California, Gaspar de Alba, African American, Chavez Ravine, Mami Elena, Dodger Stadium, Sad Girl, San Francisco, San Diego, Latin America, Virgen de Guadalupe, Coco Fusco, Kid Frost, Native American, University of Minnesota Press, University of California Press, World War, Kid Zopilote, New World, Stuart Hall, Ana Castillo, Los Borrados New!
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In many ways it is no surprise that a novel set in a small town in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico-where penitent brothers and miracle-seeking pilgrims visit the sacred grounds of Chimayo-would intergrate the medieval religious genre of the vidas de santos (the lives of saints). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Mexican American, Southern California, Gaspar de Alba, African American, Chavez Ravine, Mami Elena, Dodger Stadium, Sad Girl, San Francisco, San Diego, Latin America, Virgen de Guadalupe, Coco Fusco, Kid Frost, Native American, University of Minnesota Press, University of California Press, World War, Kid Zopilote, New World, Stuart Hall, Ana Castillo, Los Borrados New!
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- Out of the Fringe by Caridad Svich on 6 pages
- Chicanos and Film : Essays on Chicano Representation and Resistance by Chon A. Noriega on 4 pages
- Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros on 4 pages
- Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel on 4 pages
- Barrio Rhythm: MEXICAN AMERICAN MUSIC IN LOS ANGELES (Music in American Life) by Steven Loza in Front Matter, page 102, and page 109
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