Urban Latino Cultures: La vida latina en LA / Edition 1

by Michael Dear, Gustavo Leclerc, Raul Homero Villa

Overview

Urban Latino Cultures seeks to provide a cross-disciplinary forum to address and examine issues of Latino identity and representation in Los Angeles. The contributors write from a wide variety of disciplines including geography, performance art, and literary criticism. All confront issues of Latino urban identity and the production of Los Angeles social space in their work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761916208
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/14/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - Gustavo Leclerc and Michael J Dear
La Vida Latina en LA
Aquí Estamos Y No Nos Vamos - Raúl Villa
Place Struggles in Latino Los Angeles
Chávez Ravine - Don Normark
El Movimiento - Tomás Ybarra-Frausto in Coverstation with Michael Dear
The Chicano Cultural Project Since the 1960s
Bars and Belonging - María Elena Fernández
Tres Poemas - Gloria Enedina Alvarez
La Movida - Rubén Martínez
Manuela S-t-i-t-c-h-e-d - Christina Fernandez
Juan Soldado - Alma López
Spanish Caprice - Jesse Lerner and Rubén Ortiz-Torres
On Foto-Novelas - Carlos Avila
Distant Water and In the Mirror
Poems de una Chicana/Irish, Chuca Veterana que Piensa que es Sirena Turned Activist, y Poeta para Acabarla de Chingar or Mermaid at the Edge - Lindsey Haley
Pico-Union Vignettes - Luis Alfaro
L.A. Cucaracha Urban Sketch Journal - Lalo Alcaraz
L.A. Real - Theresa Chavez
La Mona de TJ - Gustavo Leclerc
Waiting in Line - Anthony Hernández
Double Agent Sirvienta - Laura Alvarez
Los Paleteros - Camilo José Vergara
Mi Casa es su Casa - Margaret Crawford
St Francis of Aztlán - Ramón Gracía
The Latino Use Urban Space of East Los Angeles - James Rojas
Fotonovela - Harry Garnboa Jr
Choosing Chicano in the 1990s - Yvette C Doss
The Underground Music Scene of Los(t) Angeles
Más allá de la Mamonerías - Rubén Martínez
Cultura, Migracíon y Desmadre en Ambos Lados del Río Bravo
Seeking Oblivion in L.A. - Ramona Ortega
Apuntes para el Fin de la Ciudad Más Grande del Mundo - Rogelio Villarreal Macías
Reflections on Identity and a Sometime Angeleno - John A Loomis
The Case of Walter Betancourt

Editorial Reviews

"An exuberant, relevatory joy ride through the best part of town. The first book on Los Angeles that Walt Whitman could sing along with."

Mike Davis

Records the voices of poets, cartoonists, photographers, architects, musicians, and filmmakers as they testify to the new in Los Angeles. They uncover the transformation of Latino memory, identity, and destiny in the social spaces of the barrio, and joyfully celebrate this pivotal moment in Latino history in the US. Includes many b&w photos and lively illustrations. Some essays are in Spanish. Paper edition (unseen), $25.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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