Velvet barrios
Subtitle: popular culture & Chicana/o sexualities
By: edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba ; foreword by Tomás Ybarra-Frausto.
Contributors: Gaspar de Alba, Alicia, 1958-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: New directions in Latino American cultures
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781403960962; 9781403960979
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Sexual behavior; Mexican American women -- Sexual behavior; Masculinity in popular culture -- United States; Femininity -- United States
Other titles: Popular culture & Chicana/o sexualities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, or, Welcome to the closet of barrio popular culture / Alicia Gaspar de Alba; title: A Chicana hagiography for the twenty-first century : Ana Castillo's Locas santas / Rita Cano Alcalá; title: In search of the authentic pachuco : an interpretive essay / Arturo Madrid; title: The "macho" body as social malinche / Gabriel S. Estrada; title: Deconstructing the mythical homeland : Mexico in contemporary Chicana performance / Laura Gutiérrez; title: A poverty of relations : on not "making familia from scratch," but scratching familia / Ralph Rodríguez; title: "Tanto tiempo disfrutamos ..." : revisiting the gender and sexual politics of Chicana/o youth culture in East Los Angeles in the 1960s / Dionne Espinoza; title: The verse of the godfather : signifying family and nationalism in Chicano rap and hip-hop culture / Richard T. Rodríguez; title: Revisiting the Chavez ravine : baseball, urban renewal, and the gendered civic culture of postwar Los Angeles / Eric Avila; title: La quinceañera : making gender and ethnic identities / Karen Mary Davalos; title: Only cauldrons know the secrets of their soups : queer romance and Like water for chocolate / Miguel A. Segovia; title: Cruising through low rider culture : Chicana/o identity in the marketing of Low rider magazine / Denise Michelle Sandoval; title: Rights of passage : from cultural schizophrenia to border consciousness in Cheech Marín's Born in East L.A. / Alicia Gaspar de Alba; title: Gendered bodies and borders in contemporary Chican@ performance and literature / Suzanne Chávez-Silverman; title: Lost in the cinematic landscape : Chicanas as lloronas in contemporary film / Domino Renee Pérez; title: "Lupe's song" : on the origins of Mexican-woman-hating in the United States / Deena J. González; title: Resisting "beauty" and Real women have curves / María P. Figueroa; title: Out of the fringe : desire and homosexuality in the 1990s Latino theater / M. Teresa Marrero; title: Velvet malinche : fantasies of "the" Aztec princess in the Chicana/o sexual imagination / Catrióna Rueda Esquibél; title: "Los borrados" : a Chicano quest for identity in a post-apocalyptic, culturally defunct Hispanic utopia : a reinterpretive Chicano comic / Oscar "The Oz" Madrigal.