Chicanx Utopias: Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible
- ISBN-10
- 147732450X
- ISBN-13
- 9781477324509
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 238
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-02-22
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Author
- Luis Alvarez
Description
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.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2022-02-22
- 239 pages
- Paperback
- University of Texas Press
Similar books
-
Revelation in Aztlán: Scriptures, Utopias, and the Chicano Movement
By Jacqueline M. Hidalgo... Chicanx movement may be found in Meier and Rivera, 257–280. César Chávez remains an unofficial saint of the movement. His words have been scripturalized as can be observed in M.T. García's edited volume, The Gospel of César Chávez, ...
-
Racial Immanence: Chicanx Bodies beyond Representation
By Marissa K. LópezIn so doing, the book challenges theoretical conversations around affect and the post-human and asks what it means to truly consider people of color as writersand artists.
-
In Search of the Utopian States of America: Intentional Communities in Novels of the Long Nineteenth Century
By Verena AdamikThis book endeavours to understand the seemingly direct link between utopianism and the USA, discussing novels that have never been brought together in this combination before, even though they all revolve around intentional communities: ...
-
Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society
By Patricia Ventura, Edward K. ChanBringing together a variety of scholarly voices, this book argues for the necessity of understanding the important role literature plays in crystallizing the ideologies of the oppressed, while exploring the necessarily racialized character ...
-
The Utopian Novel in America, 1886–1896: The Politics of Form
By Jean PfaelzerIn "Hooking Watermelons," a light story of a watermelon theft, the aristocratic heroine recognizes commonality through joining in the adventure. She discovers that humanity transcends class, although even here Bellamy suggests that ...
-
Feminist Utopias
By Frances BartkowskiThis is a comparative study of the utopian fiction of nine women writers in the United States, France, and Canada.
-
Daring To Dream: Utopian Fiction by United States Women Before 1950, Second Edition
By Carol Farley KesslerThis endeavor along with her desire for personal growth leads her to leave the House of Zeor in order to join the Company . Science - fiction fantasy with eutopian implications . Lynn , Elizabeth A. ( 1946- ) . The Sardonyx Net .
-
Women in Utopia: The Ideology of Gender in the American Owenite Communities
By Carol A. KolmertenThe Ideology of Gender in the American Owenite Communities Carol A. Kolmerten. residents belonged to one or the other of two very different types . One ' group , composed of families usually led by a husband , came to New Harmony to ...
-
The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future
By Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, Alexandra BrodskyIn this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge feminist writers—including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, Sheila Heti, and Mia McKenzie—invite us to imagine a world of freedom and equality in which: An abortion ...
-
Chicana and Chicano Art: ProtestArte
By Carlos Francisco JacksonSister Karen , as she was affectionately known , was of Italian descent and was born in Arizona in 1933. She was raised in Boyle Heights during the 1940s and 1950s . During this period , Boyle Heights , which borders East Los Angeles ...