UID:
almahu_9949546553002882
Format:
1 online resource (238 p.) :
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1 color photo, 4 b&w photos, 2 color and 2 b&w illus.
ISBN:
9781477324493
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9783110993899
Series Statement:
Historia USA
Content:
Amid the rise of neoliberalism, globalization, and movements for civil rights and global justice in the post-World War II era, Chicanxs in film, music, television, and art weaponized culture to combat often oppressive economic and political conditions. They envisioned utopias that, even if never fully realized, reimagined the world and linked seemingly disparate people and places. In the latter half of the twentieth century, Chicanx popular culture forged a politics of the possible and gave rise to utopian dreams that sprang from everyday experiences. In Chicanx Utopias, Luis Alvarez offers a broad study of these utopian visions from the 1950s to the 2000s. Probing the film Salt of the Earth, brown-eyed soul music, sitcoms, poster art, and borderlands reggae music, he examines how Chicanx pop culture, capable of both liberation and exploitation, fostered interracial and transnational identities, engaged social movements, and produced varied utopian visions with divergent possibilities and limits. Grounded in the theoretical frameworks of Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall, and the Zapatista movement, this book reveals how Chicanxs articulated pop cultural utopias to make sense of, challenge, and improve the worlds they inhabited.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1 Salt of the Earth --
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Chapter 2 Brown-Eyed Soul --
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Chapter 3 Chico and Kotter --
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Chapter 4 No Human Being Is Illegal --
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Chapter 5 Border Reggae --
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Coda Ngātahi --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993752
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993738
In:
University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766516
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781477324486
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7560/324479
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477324493
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7560/324479
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477324493
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