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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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2003.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | New directions in Latino American cultures.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction, or, Welcome to the closet of barrio popular culture / Alicia Gaspar de Alba
- A Chicana hagiography for the twenty-first century : Ana Castillo's Locas santas / Rita Cano Alcalá
- In search of the authentic pachuco : an interpretive essay / Arturo Madrid
- The "macho" body as social malinche / Gabriel S. Estrada
- Deconstructing the mythical homeland : Mexico in contemporary Chicana performance / Laura Gutiérrez
- A poverty of relations : on not "making familia from scratch," but scratching familia / Ralph Rodríguez
- "Tanto tiempo disfrutamos ..." : revisiting the gender and sexual politics of Chicana/o youth culture in East Los Angeles in the 1960s / Dionne Espinoza
- The verse of the godfather : signifying family and nationalism in Chicano rap and hip-hop culture / Richard T. Rodríguez
- Revisiting the Chavez ravine : baseball, urban renewal, and the gendered civic culture of postwar Los Angeles / Eric Avila
- La quinceañera : making gender and ethnic identities / Karen Mary Davalos
- Only cauldrons know the secrets of their soups : queer romance and Like water for chocolate / Miguel A. Segovia
- Cruising through low rider culture : Chicana/o identity in the marketing of Low rider magazine / Denise Michelle Sandoval
- Rights of passage : from cultural schizophrenia to border consciousness in Cheech Marín's Born in East L.A. / Alicia Gaspar de Alba
- Gendered bodies and borders in contemporary Chican@ performance and literature / Suzanne Chávez-Silverman
- Lost in the cinematic landscape : Chicanas as lloronas in contemporary film / Domino Renee Pérez
- "Lupe's song" : on the origins of Mexican-woman-hating in the United States / Deena J. González
- Resisting "beauty" and Real women have curves / María P. Figueroa
- Out of the fringe : desire and homosexuality in the 1990s Latino theater / M. Teresa Marrero
- Velvet malinche : fantasies of "the" Aztec princess in the Chicana/o sexual imagination / Catrióna Rueda Esquibél
- "Los borrados" : a Chicano quest for identity in a post-apocalyptic, culturally defunct Hispanic utopia : a reinterpretive Chicano comic / Oscar "The Oz" Madrigal.