Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Real Life and the Nightlife in San Francisco's Latin Quarter -- Chapter 2. Freedom in the Beats: Latino Artists and the 1950s Counterculture -- Chapter 3. La Raza Unida: Pan- Latino Art and Culture in 1960s San Francisco -- Chapter 4. The Third World Strike and the Globalization of Chicano Art -- Chapter 5. Hombres y Mujeres Muralistas on a Mission: Painting Latino Identities in 1970s San Francisco -- Chapter 6. Th e Mission in Nicaragua: San Francisco Poets Go to War -- Chapter 7. The Activist Art of a Salvadoran Diaspora: Abstraction, War, and Memory in San Francisco -- Chapter 8. The Politics of Día de los Muertos: Mourning, Art, and Activism -- Epilogue: This Place Is Love -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
The Heart of the Mission is the first in-depth examination of the Latino arts renaissance in San Francisco's Mission District in the latter twentieth century. Using evocative oral histories and archival research, Cordova highlights the rise of a vibrant intellectual community grounded in avant-garde aesthetics and radical politics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-299) and index