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Velvet Barrios NEWDIRECTIONSINLATINOAMERICANCULTURES A series edited by Licia Fiol-Matta and José Quiroga Published in 2003: The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, c. 1901, edited by Robert McKee Irwin, Edward J. McCaughan, and Michelle Rocío Nasser Bilingual Games: Some Literary Investigations, edited by Doris Sommer New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone, by Raquel Rivera Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/o Sexualities, edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba Forthcoming Titles: New Tendencies in Mexican Art, by Rubén Gallo Velvet Barrios Popular Culture & Chicana/o Sexualities Edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba Foreword by Tomás Ybarra-Frausto VELVETBARRIOS: POPULARCULTURE& CHICANA/OSEXUALITIES Copyright © Alicia Gaspar de Alba, 2003. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published 2003 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS. Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-4039-6097-9 ISBN 978-1-137-04269-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-04269-9 Cataloging-in-Publication Data available at the Library of Congress. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Letra Libre, Inc. First edition: February 2003 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Transferred to Digital Printing in 2008 For my familia of border crossers and queer intellectual activists, otherwise known as my students at UCLA and beyond Contents List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Notes from Losaida: A Foreword xv Tomás Ybarra-Frausto Introduction, or, Welcome to the Closet of Barrio Popular Culture xix Alicia Gaspar de Alba Part 1:A Barrio Altar:Heroes & Icons A Chicana Hagiography for the Twenty-first Century: Ana Castillo’s Locas Santas 3 Rita Cano Alcalá In Search of the Authentic Pachuco: An Interpretive Essay 17 Arturo Madrid The “Macho” Body as Social Malinche 41 Gabriel S. Estrada Part 2:Mythic Barrios:Cultural Myths Deconstructing the Mythical Homeland: Mexico in Contemporary Chicana Performance 63 Laura Gutiérrez A Poverty of Relations: On Not “Making Familia from Scratch,” but Scratching Familia 75 Ralph Rodríguez “Tanto Tiempo Disfrutamos...”: Revisiting the Gender and Sexual Politics of Chicana/o Youth Culture in East Los Angeles in the 1960s 89 Dionne Espinoza The Verse of the Godfather: Signifying Family and Nationalism in Chicano Rap and Hip-Hop Culture 107 Richard T. Rodríguez Part 3:Barrio Rites:Popular Rituals Revisiting the Chavez Ravine: Baseball, Urban Renewal, and the Gendered Civic Culture of Postwar Los Angeles 125 Eric Avila La Quinceañera: Making Gender and Ethnic Identities 141 Karen Mary Davalos Only Cauldrons Know the Secrets of Their Soups: Queer Romance and Like Water for Chocolate 163 Miguel A. Segovia Cruising Through Low Rider Culture: Chicana/o Identity in the Marketing of Low Rider Magazine 179 Denise Michelle Sandoval Part 4:Border Barrios: “A Tradition of Long Walks” Rights of Passage: From Cultural Schizophrenia to Border Consciousness in Cheech Marín’s Born in East L.A. 199 Alicia Gaspar de Alba Gendered Bodies and Borders in Contemporary Chican@ Performance and Literature 215 Suzanne Chávez-Silverman Lost in the Cinematic Landscape: Chicanas as Lloronas in Contemporary Film 229 Domino Renee Pérez Part 5:Velvet Barrios: Este-reo-tipos/Stereotypes “Lupe’s Song”: On the Origins of Mexican-Woman-Hating in the United States 251 Deena J. González Resisting “Beauty” and Real Women Have Curves 265 María P. Figueroa Out of the Fringe: Desire and Homosexuality in the 1990s Latino Theater 283 M. Teresa Marrero Velvet Malinche: Fantasies of “the” Aztec Princess in the Chicana/o Sexual Imagination 295 Catrióna Rueda Esquibél Part 6:A Barrio Comic:(Introducing...) “Los Borrados”: A Chicano Quest for Identity in a Post-Apocalyptic, Culturally Defunct Hispanic Utopia (A Reinterpretive Chicano Comic) 311 Oscar “The Oz” Madrigal Contributors 323 Reprints & Permissions 327
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