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Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities by Alicia Gasper De Alba (Paperback, 2003)

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The essays in Velvet Barrios collectively intervene in the field of popular culture studies to examine the various ways in which the ideologies of sex maleness and femaleness as well as the ideologies of gender femininity and masculinity are produced and consumed, approved and accepted, resisted and reinvented in the popular arts, rituals, icons, myths, and beliefs of the 'alter Native community' of Mexican descent in the United States. Gaspar de Alba argues that Chicana/o culture is not a subculture but an alter Native culture 'an Other American culture indigenous to the landbase now known as the West and the Southwest of the U.S'. The collection is called Velvet Barrios because the editor believes that nothing signifies the working class, highly layered, textured, and metaphoric sensibility known as the rasquache aesthetic (that characterizes so much of Chicana/o popular culture) more than black velvet art. In her words, 'What is more evocative of sexed and gendered barrio representations than those images of voluptuous maidens, feathered warriors, airbrushed Chevys, tattooed cholos, and sacred virgins?' From the hagiography of 'locas santas', to the sexual politics of early Chicana activists in the Chicano youth movement, from the representation of Latina bodies in popular magazines to the ritual performance of Mexican femaleness, as enacted by the quinceanera from the iconic fetishization of el Pachuco, la Malinche, and la Llorona in film and literature or the stereotypical renderings of recipe books and calendar art be it baseball, nortena music, or nationalist rhetoric through which Mexican masculinity is measured by fraternity initiations, lowriding, hip hop, detective fiction, or border crossings all of these pieces dialectically engage methods of popular culture studies with discourses of gender, sexuality, identity politics, representation, and cultural production. Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/o Sexualities represents the first book to focus fully on the more closeted issues of barrio popular culture. There is no monolithic singular 'barrio', or community, which can contain all of these interventions. Instead, this collection helps us to construct a plurality of 'barrios', a diversity of neighbourhoods in which to be/become/signify Chicano and Chicana bodies of the 21st century.

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Publisher
Palgrave USA
ISBN-13
9781403960979
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95590281

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Subject Area
Gender Issues, Social Organisations
Author
Alicia Gasper De Alba
Publication Name
Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/O Sexualities
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences, Zoology, Anthropology
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
327 Pages

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229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
537g

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Series Title
New Directions in Latino American Cultures
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Alicia Gasper De Alba

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