Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/O Sexualities

by Tomas Ybarra Frausto, Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, Alicia Gaspar De Alba

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In Chicana/o 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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1403960976

ISBN13:9781403960979

Release Date:December 2002

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:327 Pages

Weight:0.63 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.6" x 9.2"

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Anthropology Behavioral Sciences Ethnic Studies Feminist Theory Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting Hispanic American Studies Minority Studies Politics & Social Sciences Psychology

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