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Barrio Logos
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Author : Raúl Homero Villa
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2009-03-06
Barrio Logos written by Raúl Homero Villa and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Struggles over space and resistance to geographic displacement gave birth to much of Chicano history and culture. In this pathfinding book, Raúl Villa explores how California Chicano/a activists, journalists, writers, artists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programs and massive freeway development and to create and defend a sense of Chicano place-identity. Villa opens with a historical overview that shows how Chicano communities and culture have grown in response to conflicts over space ever since the United States' annexation of Mexican territory in the 1840s. Then, turning to the work of contemporary members of the Chicano intelligentsia such as Helena Maria Viramontes, Ron Arias, and Lorna Dee Cervantes, Villa demonstrates how their expressive practices re-imagine and re-create the dominant urban space as a community enabling place. In doing so, he illuminates the endless interplay in which cultural texts and practices are shaped by and act upon their social and political contexts.
Repairing Infrastructures
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Author : Christopher R. Henke
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-10-13
Repairing Infrastructures written by Christopher R. Henke and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with Political Science categories.
An investigation of the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life. Infrastructures--communication, food, transportation, energy, and information--are all around us, and their enduring function and influence depend on the constant work of repair. In this book, Christopher Henke and Benjamin Sims explore the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life. Henke and Sims offer examples, from local to global, to investigate not only the role of repair in maintaining infrastructures themselves but also the social and political orders that are created and sustained through them.
The Latinx Urban Condition
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Author : Crescencio Lopez-Gonzalez
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2019-12-31
The Latinx Urban Condition written by Crescencio Lopez-Gonzalez and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Latinx Urban Condition brings interdisciplinary cultural theory and U.S. Latinx urban literature into conversation, focusing on the realities and urban experiences of Latinx living in major cities in the United States from the 1960’s to the present. As a cultural studies analyst of U.S. Latinx urban literature and culture, the book focuses on analyzing the works of Latinx authors who write about the cities in which they were raised and how growing up in these environments shaped their lives, their communities, and their future. Their fictional work helps us understand how the human and cultural tapestry of the Latinx community is inextricably connected to the spatial transformations taking place in many cities across the country, most notably within the cities in which the narratives take place. The main purpose is to analyze the symbolic realities lived by the characters in order to understand how Latino families and communities are experiencing displacement under instituted neoliberal policies, a process known as development and progress or gentrification. These processes are experienced through aspects of privatization, deregulation, homelessness, residential segregation, inequality, unemployment, and poverty.
Landscapes Of Writing In Chicano Literature
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Author : I. Martín-Junquera
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-12-17
Landscapes Of Writing In Chicano Literature written by I. Martín-Junquera and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-17 with Social Science categories.
Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe and North and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide answers to the environmental crisis. Diverse ecocritical perspectives add new meaning to the novels, short stories, drama, poetry, films, and documentaries analyzed in this timely and engaged collection.
Relocations
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Author : Karen Tongson
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2011
Relocations written by Karen Tongson and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Social Science categories.
What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality, race and representation in the suburbs. Focusing on the region humorists have referred to as Lesser Los Angeles-a global prototype for sprawl-Karen Tongson weaves through suburbia's nowherespaces to survey our spatial imaginaries: the aesthetic, creative and popular materials of the new suburbia.
Disability Studies And The Environmental Humanities
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Author : Sarah Jaquette Ray
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2017-06
Disability Studies And The Environmental Humanities written by Sarah Jaquette Ray and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06 with Nature categories.
Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between "wild" and "built" environments for several years, few have focused on the field of disability studies, a discipline that enlists the contingency between environments and bodies as a foundation of its scholarship. On the other hand, scholars in disability studies have demonstrated the ways in which the built environment privileges some bodies and minds over others, yet they have rarely examined the ways in which toxic environments engender chronic illness and disability or how environmental illnesses disrupt dominant paradigms for scrutinizing "disability." Designed as a reader for undergraduate and graduate courses, Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities employs interdisciplinary perspectives to examine such issues as slow violence, imperialism, race, toxicity, eco-sickness, the body in environmental justice, ableism, and other topics. With a historical scope spanning the seventeenth century to the present, this collection not only presents the foundational documents informing this intersection of fields but also showcases the most current work, making it an indispensable reference.
Intersections Of Harm
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Author : Laura Halperin
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-13
Intersections Of Harm written by Laura Halperin and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this innovative new study, Laura Halperin examines literary representations of harm inflicted on Latinas’ minds and bodies, and on the places Latinas inhabit, but she also explores how hope can be found amid so much harm. Analyzing contemporary memoirs and novels by Irene Vilar, Loida Maritza Pérez, Ana Castillo, Cristina García, and Julia Alvarez, she argues that the individual harm experienced by Latinas needs to be understood in relation to the collective histories of aggression against their communities. Intersections of Harm is more than just a nuanced examination of the intersections among race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. It also explores the intersections of deviance and defiance, individual and collective, and mind, body, and place. Halperin proposes that, ironically, the harmful ascriptions of Latina deviance are tied to the hopeful expressions of Latina defiance. While the Latina protagonists’ defiance feeds into the labels of deviance imposed on them, it also fuels the protagonists’ ability to resist such harmful treatment. In this analysis, Halperin broadens the parameters of literary studies of female madness, as she compels us to shift our understanding of where madness lies. She insists that the madness readily attributed to individual Latinas is entwined with the madness of institutional structures of oppression, and she maintains that psychological harm is bound together with physical and geopolitical harm. In her pan-Latina study, Halperin shows how each writer’s work emerges from a unique set of locales and histories, but she also traces a network of connections among them. Bringing together concepts from feminism, postcolonialism, illness studies, and ecocriticism, Intersections of Harm opens up exciting new avenues for Latina/o studies.
Shameful Victory
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Author : John H. M. Laslett
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2015-10-22
Shameful Victory written by John H. M. Laslett and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-22 with History categories.
"The book offers a history of Chavez Ravine with special attention to the period after World War II to the early 1960s, studying Los Angeles and its political structure, the contractions in policies around public housing, the impact on Mexican Americans, and the building of Dodger Stadium and the arrival of the team to Chavez Ravine"--Provided by publisher.
Mexican American Mojo
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Author : Anthony Macías
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-11-11
Mexican American Mojo written by Anthony Macías and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-11 with Social Science categories.
Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s and 1960s, Mexican American Mojo is a lively account of Mexican American urban culture in wartime and postwar Los Angeles as seen through the evolution of dance styles, nightlife, and, above all, popular music. Revealing the links between a vibrant Chicano music culture and postwar social and geographic mobility, Anthony Macías shows how by participating in jazz, the zoot suit phenomenon, car culture, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and Latin music, Mexican Americans not only rejected second-class citizenship and demeaning stereotypes, but also transformed Los Angeles. Macías conducted numerous interviews for Mexican American Mojo, and the voices of little-known artists and fans fill its pages. In addition, more famous musicians such as Ritchie Valens and Lalo Guerrero are considered anew in relation to their contemporaries and the city. Macías examines language, fashion, and subcultures to trace the history of hip and cool in Los Angeles as well as the Chicano influence on urban culture. He argues that a grass-roots “multicultural urban civility” that challenged the attempted containment of Mexican Americans and African Americans emerged in the neighborhoods, schools, nightclubs, dance halls, and auditoriums of mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles. So take a little trip with Macías, via streetcar or freeway, to a time when Los Angeles had advanced public high school music programs, segregated musicians’ union locals, a highbrow municipal Bureau of Music, independent R & B labels, and robust rock and roll and Latin music scenes.
The City In American Literature And Culture
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Author : Kevin R. McNamara
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-08-05
The City In American Literature And Culture written by Kevin R. McNamara and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-05 with History categories.
This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.