Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/O Sexualities

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

Book Overview

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: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.2"