The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force / / Stephanie Sauer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Sauer, Stephanie,
• MitwirkendeR: Diaz, Ella Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2023]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (159 p.)

How do you write a history of a group that has been written out of history? In The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force, world-famous archaeologist La Stef and the clandestine Con Sapos Archaeological Collective track down the “facts” about the elusive RCAF, the Rebel Chicano Art Front that, through an understandable mix-up with the Royal Canadian Air Force, became the Royal Chicano Air Force. La Stef and her fellow archaeologists document the plight and locura que cura of the RCAF, a group renowned for its fleet of adobe airplanes, ongoing subversive performance stance, and key role as poster makers for the United Farm Workers Union during the height of the Chicano civil rights movement. As the Con Sapos team uncovers tensions between fact and fiction in historical consciousness and public memory, they abandon didactic instruction and strive instead to offer a historiography in which various cultural paradigms already intersect seamlessly and on equal ground. That they often fail to navigate the blurred lines between “objective” Western archival sciences and Indigenous/Chicana/o cosmologies reflects the very human predicament of documenting the histories of complicated New Worlds everywhere. Uniquely blending art history, oral history, cultural studies, and anthropology, The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force suspends historical realities and leaps through epochs and between conversations with various historical figures, both dead and alive, to offer readers an intimate experience of RCAF history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- An Introduction to The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force -- Dedication -- Cast -- Contents -- A Brief Introduction to the Royal Chicano Air Force -- Notes on Historical Documentation of the Royal Chicano Air Force -- An Overview of Royal Chicano Air Force History -- The Found Codex -- Flight Maneuvers -- The Lost Codex -- [C/S, Therefore It Is: An Interlude] -- Infamous Accidents -- [omission regarding an omission regarding Louie “The Foot” Gonzáles] -- Recovering the Stolen Archives -- An Exceedingly Small Sampling from the Oral Vaults -- The Ancient Documentaries of Southside Park -- The RCAF in Space -- Biographies -- Afterword -- Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography -- Collections -- List of Works -- Acknowledgments