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Urban Latino Cultures
La vida latina en LA
Edited by:
- Michael Dear - University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Gustavo Leclerc
- Raul Villa - Occidental College, Los Angeles
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224 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Urban Latino Cultures seeks to provide a cross-disciplinary forum for which to address and examine issues of Latino identity and representation in Los Angeles. The contributors write from a wide variety of disciplines including geography, performance art, and literary criticism and all confront issues of Latino urban identity and the production of Los Angeles social space in their work.
Gustavo Leclerc and Michael J Dear
Introduction
Raúl Villa
Aquí Estamos Y No Nos Vamos
Don Normark
Chávez Ravine
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto in Coverstation with Michael Dear
El Movimiento
María Elena Fernández
Bars and Belonging
Gloria Enedina Alvarez
Tres Poemas
Rubén Martínez
La Movida
Christina Fernandez
Manuela S-t-i-t-c-h-e-d
Alma López
Juan Soldado
Jesse Lerner and Rubén Ortiz-Torres
Spanish Caprice
Carlos Avila
On Foto-Novelas
Lindsey Haley
Poems de una Chicana/Irish, Chuca Veterana que Piensa que es Sirena Turned Activist, y Poeta para Acabarla de Chingar or Mermaid at the Edge
Luis Alfaro
Pico-Union Vignettes
Lalo Alcaraz
L.A. Cucaracha Urban Sketch Journal
Theresa Chavez
L.A. Real
Gustavo Leclerc
La Mona de TJ
Anthony Hernández
Waiting in Line
Laura Alvarez
Double Agent Sirvienta
Camilo José Vergara
Los Paleteros
Margaret Crawford
Mi Casa es su Casa
Ramón Gracía
St Francis of Aztlán
James Rojas
The Latino Use Urban Space of East Los Angeles
Harry Garnboa Jr
Fotonovela
Yvette C Doss
Choosing Chicano in the 1990s
Rubén Martínez
Más allá de la Mamonerías
Ramona Ortega
Seeking Oblivion in L.A.
Rogelio Villarreal Macías
Apuntes para el Fin de la Ciudad Más Grande del Mundo
John A Loomis
Reflections on Identity and a Sometime Angeleno
"An exuberant, relevatory joy ride through the best part of town. The first book on Los Angeles that Walt Whitman could sing along with."
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