Description

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This collection of essays interrogates the most contested social, political, and aesthetic concept in Chicana/o cultural studies—resistance.

If Chicana/o culture was born of resistance amid assimilation and nationalistic forces, how has it evolved into the twenty-first century? This groundbreaking volume redresses the central idea of resistance in Chicana/o visual cultural expression through nine clustered discussions, each coordinating scholarly, critical, curatorial, and historical contextualizations alongside artist statements and interviews. Landmark artistic works—illustrations, paintings, sculpture, photography, film, and television—anchor each section. Contributors include David Avalos, Mel Casas, Ester Hernández, Nicholas Herrera, Luis Jiménez, Ellen Landis, Yolanda López, Richard Lou, Delilah Montoya, Laura Pérez, Lourdes Portillo, Luis Tapia, Chuy Treviño, Willie Varela, Kathy Vargas, René Yañez, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, and more. Cara a cara, face-to-face, encounters across the collection reveal the varied richness of resistant strategies, movidas, as they position crucial terms of debate surrounding resistance, including subversion, oppression, affirmation, and identification.

The essays in the collection represent a wide array of perspectives on Chicana/o visual culture. Editors Scott L. Baugh and Víctor A. Sorell have curated a dialog among the many voices, creating an important new volume that redefines the role of resistance in Chicana/o visual arts and cultural expression.

About the Author

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Scott L. Baugh is an associate professor of film and media studies at Texas Tech University. He has authored Latino American Cinema: An Encyclopedia of Movies, Stars, Concepts, and Trends and edited Mediating Chicana/o Culture: Multicultural American Vernacular.
 
Víctor A. Sorell is a distinguished emeritus professor of art history at Chicago State University. A recognized pioneer in Chicana/o art historical studies, he has edited Carlos Cortéz Koyokuikatl: Soapbox Artist and Poet and co-edited Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies, and Discourse.
 

Praise For…

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“This volume will stand as an important and foundational piece of scholarship to the future study of Chicana/o visual culture.”—Carlos Francisco Jackson, author of Chicana and Chicano Art: ProtestArte

“[This] is an unprecedented major timely contribution to the literature on Chicano cultural production and expressive culture.”—Isidro D. Ortiz, co-editor of Chicano Renaissance: Contemporary Cultural Trends