{"id":2803,"date":"2009-11-05T01:43:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T01:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2013-02-08T02:22:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:22:46","slug":"mestizaje-critical-uses-of-race-in-chicano-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2803","title":{"rendered":"Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Minnesota Press<\/a>
\n2006
\n272 pages
\n15 halftones; 5 7\u20448 x 9
\nPaper ISBN: 0-8166-4595-7
\nPaper ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4595-4
\nCloth ISBN: 0-8166-4594-9
\nCloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4594-7<\/p>\n

Rafael P\u00e9rez-Torres<\/a>,<\/strong> Professor and Chair\u00a0of English
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A major reassessment of how mixed-race identity affects Chicano culture and politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Focusing on the often unrecognized role race plays in expressions of Chicano<\/a> culture, Mestizaje<\/em> is a provocative exploration of the volatility and mutability of racial identities. In this important moment in Chicano studies, Rafael P\u00e9rez-Torres reveals how the concepts and realities of race, historical memory, the body, and community have both constrained and opened possibilities for forging new and potentially liberating multiracial identities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Informed by a broad-ranging theoretical investigation of identity politics and race and incorporating feminist and queer critiques, P\u00e9rez-Torres skillfully analyzes Chicano cultural production. Contextualizing the history of mestizaje<\/a>, he shows how the concept of mixed race has been used to engage issues of hybridity and voice and examines the dynamics that make mestizo<\/a> and mestiza identities resistant to, as well as affirmative of, dominant forms of power. He also addresses the role that mestizaje has played in expressive culture, including the hip-hop music of Cypress Hill<\/a> and the vibrancy of Chicano poster art. Turning to issues of mestizaje in literary creation, P\u00e9rez-Torres offers critical readings of the works of Emma P\u00e9rez<\/a>, Gil Cuadros<\/a>\u00a0[1962-1996], and Sandra Cisneros<\/a>, among others. This book concludes with a consideration of the role that the mestizo body plays as a site of elusive or displaced knowledge.<\/p>\n

Moving beyond the oppositions\u2014nationalism versus assimilation, men versus women, Texans versus Californians\u2014that have characterized much of Chicano studies, Mestizaje<\/em> synthesizes and assesses twenty-five years of pathbreaking thinking to make a case for the core components, sensibilities, and concerns of the discipline.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acknowledgments
\nIntroduction<\/p>\n

PART I. Creating Mestizaje
\n1. The Critical Mixture of Race
\n2. The Mestizo Voice<\/p>\n

PART II. Fashioning Mestizaje
\n3. Popular Music and Postmodern Mestizaje
\n4. Land and Race in Chicano Public Art<\/p>\n

PART III. Challenging Mestizaje
\n5. The Transgressive Body and Sexual Mestizaje
\n6. Narrative and Loss<\/p>\n

Notes
\nWorks Cited
\nIndex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture University of Minnesota Press 2006 272 pages 15 halftones; 5 7\u20448 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4595-7 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4595-4 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4594-9 Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4594-7 Rafael P\u00e9rez-Torres, Professor and Chair\u00a0of English University of California, Los Angeles A major reassessment of how mixed-race identity affects Chicano culture and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,125,8,17,20],"tags":[975,976,338,977,152,662,978,341],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-chicano-studies","tag-cypress-hill","tag-emma-perez","tag-gil-cuadros","tag-hybridity","tag-rafael-perez-torres","tag-sandra-cisneros","tag-university-of-minnesota-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}