Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/o Sexualities by Tomas Ybarra Frausto, Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/o Sexualities

Tomas Ybarra Frausto, Alicia Gaspar de Alba

352 pages first pub 2002 (view editions)

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In Chicano/a popular culture, nothing signifies the working class, highly-layered, textured, and metaphoric sensibility known as "rasquache aesthetic" more than black velvet art. The essays in this volume examine that aesthetic by looking at icons...

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