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Culture across Borders is the first and only book-length study to analyze a wide range of cultural manifestations of the immigration experience, including art, literature, cinema, corridos, and humor. Established and upcoming scholars from both sides of the border contribute their expertise in art history, literary criticism, history, cultural studies, and other fields, capturing the many facets of the immigrant experience in popular culture. As a first step in addressing the cultural dimensions of Mexican immigration to the United States, this book captures how the immigration process has inspired powerful creative responses on both sides of the border.

In doing so, C. Alejandra Elenes contributes to the scholarship on transformative pedagogies by adding the voices of Chicana feminist pedagogies, epistemologies, and ontologies. This informed and accessible book captures the art, energy, passion, and pageantry of over 60 years of lowrider culture—an absolutely iconic Chicano and American phenomenon.

A comprehensive overview of the folktales, traditions, rituals, and religious practices of Mexican Americans. In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team.

His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances. Struggles over space and resistance to geographic displacement gave birth to much of Chicano history and culture. Villa opens with a historical overview that shows how Chicano communities and culture have grown in response to conflicts over space ever since the United States' annexation of Mexican territory in the s.

Then, turning to the work of contemporary members of the Chicano intelligentsia such as Helena Maria Viramontes, Ron Arias, and Lorna Dee Cervantes, Villa demonstrates how their expressive practices re-imagine and re-create the dominant urban space as a community enabling place.

In doing so, he illuminates the endless interplay in which cultural texts and practices are shaped by and act upon their social and political contexts. 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 the early s, a major exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, toured major museums around the United States. This book presents the first interdisciplinary cultural study of the CARA exhibit. It will appeal to a diverse audience in all of these fields.

Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late s and s, Mexican American Mojo is a lively account of Mexican American urban culture in wartime and postwar Los Angeles as seen through the evolution of dance styles, nightlife, and, above all, popular music.

In addition, more famous musicians such as Ritchie Valens and Lalo Guerrero are considered anew in relation to their contemporaries and the city. For college students - and for all readers who want to learn more about this subject - this book is an ideal introduction to an art movement with a social conscience. In Next of Kin, Richard T. Drawing on cultural studies and feminist and queer theory, he examines representations of the family that reflect and support a patriarchal, heteronormative nationalism as well as those that reconfigure kinship to encompass alternative forms of belonging.

Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture is an innovative work that freshly approaches the concept of race as a social factor made concrete in popular forms, such as film, television, and music. The essays collectively push past the reaffirmation of static conceptions of identity, authenticity, or conventional interpretations of stereotypes and bridge the intertextual gap between theories of community enactment and cultural representation. The book also draws together and melds otherwise isolated academic theories and methodologies in order to focus on race as an ideological reality and a process that continues to impact lives despite allegations that we live in a post-racial America.

The collection is separated into three parts: Visualizing Race Representational Media , Sounding Race Soundscape , and Racialization in Place Theory , each of which considers visual, audio, and geographic sites of racial representations respectively. Summary: Since the Chicano movement of the late s and early s many Chicanos have been allowed to enter the mainstream, assuming positions which permit them to maintain some control over the images and representations put into the market place.

I begin this project from the premise that the issues of popular culture and the construction of Chicano identity cannot be separated from issues of class, labor, and political economylanguage, nationality, and citizenship.

I explore power relations embedded in different forms of popular culture. My review of Chicano popular culture includes a close analysis of three areas of creative expression.

I use the term post -Chicano to describe the political, social, and cultural experience of the Mexican American community since the end of the civil rights and Chicano movements. Chapter One addresses commercially successful Chicano hip hop artists, from the late s to the twenty-first century. Historically Chicanos have played an important role in all aspects of hip hop culture but their contribution is largely invisible within popular culture as well as much academic discourse.

In Chapter Two I explore the work of the nationally syndicated comic artist known as Lalo Alcaraz, whose daily comic is the only strip to present a critical Chicano perspective, within mainstream newspapers, on many different cultural and political topics. In Chapter Three the work and life of filmmaker Robert Rodriguez provides an example of what the future may hold for Chicanos who enter, and become successful in, mainstream U. In this chapter I also provide an analysis that moves beyond the textual.

This collection presents a rich, multidisciplinary inquiry into the role of religion in the Mexican American community. Breaking new ground by analyzing the influence of religion on Mexican American literature, art, activism, and popular culture, it makes the case for the establishment of Mexican American religious studies as a distinct, recognized field of scholarly inquiry. Still others illuminate popular Catholicism by looking at Our Lady of Guadalupe, home altars, and Los Pastores dramas nativity plays as vehicles for personal, social, and political empowerment.

They investigate the role of healing, looking at it in relation to both the Latino Pentecostal movement and the practice of the curanderismo tradition in East Los Angeles. This volume signals the vibrancy and diversity of the practices, arts, traditions, and spiritualities that reflect and inform Mexican American religion.

Contributors: Rudy V. Flores, Mario T. Lloyd-Moffett, Laura E. Stevens-Arroyo, Kay Turner. Avila's work helps us see how and why the postwar suburb produced the political culture of 'balanced budget conservatism' that is now the dominant force in politics, how the eclipse of the New Deal since the s represents not only a change of views but also an alteration of spaces.

Offers a feminist-based analysis of Chicano films and their messages, discussing such films as "La Bamba" and "American Me. Skip to content. Chicano popular culture. Chicano Popular Culture, Second Edition. Summary: Since the Chicano movement of the late s and early s many Chicanos have been allowed to enter the mainstream, assuming positions which permit them to maintain some control over the images and representations put into the market place.

I begin this project from the premise that the issues. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than , white people were shipped to America as slaves. Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture. Contains entries that provide information about various aspects of Latino popular culture, covering people, celebrations, food, sports, events, literature and film, fashion, and other topics; arranged alphabetically from A to L.