Lowrider space
Subtitle: aesthetics and politics of Mexican American custom cars
By: Ben Chappell
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Austin, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780292737860; 9780292737877
Subjects: Social life and customs; Lowriders; Social aspects; Cultural assimilation; Automobiles; Mexican Americans; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies; Popular culture; Societies
Description: "This book explores how lowrider car culture allows Mexican Americans to alter the urban landscape and make a place for themselves in an often segregated society"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Chapter One. Cruising Spaces; title: Chapter Two. Inside Out: The Ambivalent Aesthetics of Lowrider Interiors; title: Chapter Three. Auto Bodies; title: Chapter Four. Work: The Producer as Author; title: Chapter Five. Neither Gangsters nor Santitos; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Reference List; title: Index.