About this title: These eighteen interdisciplinary essays examine the multiplicity of ways in which the ideologies of sex and gender are produced and consumed, approved and accepted, resisted and reinvented in Chicana/o popular culture.
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Palgrave MacM
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781403960962ISBN:1403960968
Description: NEAR FINE. Hardback, 356pp., NEW, 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, sexuality, ... read more
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