Chicanx Utopias : : Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible / / Luis Alvarez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Alvarez, Luis,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Historia USA
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.) :; 1 color photo, 4 b&w photos, 2 color and 2 b&w illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 Salt of the Earth --; Chapter 2 Brown-Eyed Soul --; Chapter 3 Chico and Kotter --; Chapter 4 No Human Being Is Illegal --; Chapter 5 Border Reggae --; Coda Ngātahi --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781477324493; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993752; 9783110993738; 9783110766516
• DOI: 10.7560/324479
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Luis Alvarez.

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.