Title Chicanx utopias : pop culture and the politics of the possible / Luis Alvarez

Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series Historia USA Historia USA. Contents Salt of the Earth -- Brown-eyed soul -- Chico and Kotter -- No human being is illegal -- Border reggae -- Coda: Ngātahi Summary Amid the rise of neoliberalism, globalization, and movements for civil rights and global justice in the post-World War II era, Chicanxs in film, music, television, and art weaponized culture to combat often oppressive economic and political conditions. They envisioned utopias that, even if never fully realized, reimagined the world and linked seemingly disparate people and places. In the latter half of the twentieth century, Chicanx popular culture forged a politics of the possible and gave rise to utopian dreams that sprang from everyday experiences. In Chicanx Utopias, Luis Alvarez offers a broad study of these utopian visions from the 1950s to the 2000s. Probing the film Salt of the Earth, brown-eyed soul music, sitcoms, poster art, and borderlands reggae music, he examines how Chicanx pop culture, capable of both liberation and exploitation, fostered interracial and transnational identities, engaged social movements, and produced varied utopian visions with divergent possibilities and limits. Grounded in the theoretical frameworks of Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall, and the Zapatista movement, this book reveals how Chicanxs articulated pop cultural utopias to make sense of, challenge, and improve the worlds they inhabited "The book explores race, politics, Chicanx history, and social movements to offer a broad examination of Chicanx popular culture since World War II and the utopian visions it articulated"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed June 6, 2022) Subject Mexican Americans in popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Mexican Americans in popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century Mexican Americans and mass media -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Mexican Americans and mass media -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century Mexican Americans -- Social life and customs -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Mexican Americans -- Political activity -- United States Chicano movement -- United States Utopias -- United States Utopias in mass media. Chicano movement. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Chicano movement Mexican Americans -- Political activity Utopias Utopias in mass media United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781477324493 1477324496

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