Velvet barrios : popular culture & Chicana/o sexualities / edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba ; foreword by Tomás Ybarra-Frausto.
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,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2003.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | New directions in Latino American cultures.
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Main Collection
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E184.M5 V35 2003 |
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| Status: | Available Request this item |