Chicano-Chicana Americana: Pop Culture Pluralism Starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros PDF
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CHICANO-CHICANA AMERICANA Latinx Pop Culture SERIES EDITORS Frederick Luis Aldama and Arturo J. Aldama CHICANO-CHICANA AMERICANA Pop Culture Pluralism Starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros Anthony Macías The University of Arizona Press www.uapress.arizona.edu We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples. Today, Arizona is home to twenty-two federally recognized tribes, with Tucson being home to the O’odham and the Yaqui. Committed to diversity and inclusion, the University strives to build sustainable relationships with sovereign Native Nations and Indig- enous communities through education offerings, partnerships, and community service. © 2023 by The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserved. Published 2023 ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-4723-4 (paperback) ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-4724-1 (ebook) Cover design by Leigh McDonald Typeset by Sara Thaxton in 10.5/13.5 Warnock Pro with Futura Std Material from chapters 1 and 2 was originally published in the article “Demythologizing Hol- lywood Westerns: Ethnic Mexicans as Americana,” in Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900–Present) 20, no. 1 (Spring 2021). Publication of this book is made possible in part by the proceeds of a permanent endowment created with the assistance of a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Hu- manities, a federal agency. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Macías, Anthony F., author. Title: Chicano-Chicana Americana : pop culture pluralism starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros / Anthony Macías. Other titles: Latinx pop culture. Description: [Tucson] : The University of Arizona Press, 2023. | Series: Latinx pop culture | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2022018665 (print) | LCCN 2022018666 (ebook) | ISBN 9780816547234 (paperback) | ISBN 9780816547241 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Hispanic American actors—United States—Biography. | Hispanic Americans in the performing arts—United States. | Hispanic Americans in popular culture—United States. | Hispanic Americans—United States—Ethnic identity. | LCGFT: Biographies. Classification: LCC E184.S75 M335 2023 (print) | LCC E184.S75 (ebook) | DDC 305.868/073—dc23/eng/20220623 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022018665 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022018666 Printed in the United States of America ♾ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). To my wife, Connie Martin Rivera, and our children, Paloma and Tony “E Pluribus Unum” (out of many, one) —ORIGINAL U.S. MOTTO ON NATIONAL SEAL, 1782 “Our fate is to become one, and yet many.” —RALPH ELLISON, INVISIBLE MAN (1952) “There are, in truth, as many American pasts as there are Americans. . . . ‘American history’ . . . belongs to us all.” —GARY OKIHIRO, COMMON GROUND: REIMAGINING AMERICAN HISTORY (2001) CONTENTS List of Illustrations xi Preface: Perspective and Premise xiii Introduction: Title, Subtitle, Context 3 1. “I Hate All Forms of Nationalism”: Anthony Quinn’s Unconventional Adventure 28 2. “Art Doesn’t Have Borders”: Katy Jurado Standing Strong Onscreen 59 3. “A Human Being with a Creative Mind”: Robert Beltran, from Classical Theater to Deep Space 84 4. “Notable, Humorous, and Human”: Lupe Ontiveros and the Art of the Character Actor 106 Conclusion: Reimagining Americana 136 Acknowledgments 169 Notes 175 Selected Bibliography 229 Index 235
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