Walls of Empowerment : : Chicana/o Indigenist Murals of California /

Walls of Empowerment : : Chicana/o Indigenist Murals of California / / Guisela Latorre.

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Exploring three major hubs of muralist activity in California, where indigenist imagery is prevalent, Walls of Empowerment celebrates an aesthetic that seeks to firmly establish Chicana/o sociopolitical identity in U.S. territory. Providing readers with a history and genealogy of key muralists'...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Latorre, Guisela,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2008
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Indigenism and Chicana/o Muralism: The Radicalization of an Aesthetic
  • Chapter 1. The Dialectics of Continuity and Disruption: Chicana/o and Mexican Indigenist Murals
  • Chapter 2. The Chicano Movement and Indigenist Murals: The Formation of a Nationalist Canon and Identity
  • Chapter 3. Graffiti and Murals: Urban Culture and Indigenist Glyphs
  • Chapter 4. The Chicana/o Mural Environment: Indigenist Aesthetics and Urban Spaces
  • Chapter 5. Gender, Indigenism, and Chicana Muralists
  • Chapter 6. Murals and Postmodernism: Post-movimiento, Heterogeneity, and New Media in Chicana/o Indigenism
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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