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Author Sauer, Stephanie, author.

Title The accidental archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force / Stephanie Sauer ; introduction by Ella Maria Diaz, PHD
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series The William and Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
Contents Notes on Historical Documentation of the Royal Chicano Air Force -- Archivist's Note -- Con Sapos -- Con Sapos' Archival Techniques -- The Archaeological Practice -- A Note from Con Sapos Regarding the Written Word -- An Overview of Royal Chicano Air Force History -- A Brief and Accurate History of RCAF Aviation -- Anatomy of an Adobe Airplane -- How to Build an Adobe Airplane -- The Royal Chicano Naval Forces -- Anatomy of a Royal Chicano Naval Ship -- Origin of the Symbol of Ollin -- Early RCAF Cartography -- Early Royal Chicano Air Force Makes and Models -- RCAF Murals at Chicano Park: A Security Facade? -- The Twice-Hidden Truth about RCAF Silkscreen Operations -- The Found Codex -- Flight Maneuvers -- Sacras -- Bakersfield -- Fowler -- Las Vegas -- Delano -- Sacras -- Sacras -- San Diego -- CA-NV State Line -- Sacramento Concilio -- Alkali Flats -- The Lost Codex -- [C/S, Therefore It Is: An Interlude] -- Infamous Accidents -- La NASA Sapotecnica Incident -- The Takeover of the Tank -- The Yolo County Crop Duster Incident -- A USDA Offer -- [omission regarding an omission regarding Louie "The Foot" Gonzales] -- Recovering the Stolen Archives -- The First RCAF Postcard -- A Close Call as Cesar's Security -- A Major Find! RCAF Time Warp in the Tunnel Mural -- An Exceedingly Small Sampling from the Oral Vaults -- The Ancient Documentaries of Southside Park -- The First Dia de Los Muertos en SacrAztlan -- The First Fiesta de Maiz -- The First Fiesta de Colores -- The RCAF in Space -- RCAF Astronauts -- The Lunar Module -- Biographies
Summary How do you write a history of a group that has been written out of history? In The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force, world-famous archaeologist La Stef and the clandestine Con Sapos Archaeological Collective track down the "facts" about the elusive RCAF, the Rebel Chicano Art Front that, through an understandable mix-up with the Royal Canadian Air Force, became the Royal Chicano Air Force.????La Stef and her fellow archaeologists document the plight and locura que cura of the RCAF, a group renowned for its fleet of adobe airplanes, ongoing subversive performance stance, and key role as poster makers for the United Farm Workers Union during the height of the Chicano civil rights movement. As the Con Sapos team uncovers tensions between fact and fiction in historical consciousness and public memory, they abandon didactic instruction and strive instead to offer a historiography in which various cultural paradigms already intersect seamlessly and on equal ground. That they often fail to navigate the blurred lines between "objective" Western archival sciences and Indigenous/Chicana/o cosmologies reflects the very human predicament of documenting the histories of complicated New Worlds everywhere. Uniquely blending art history, oral history, cultural studies, and anthropology, The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force suspends historical realities and leaps through epochs and between conversations with various historical figures, both dead and alive, to offer readers an intimate experience of RCAF history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Royal Chicano Air Force.
Mexican American arts -- California -- History
ART / General
Form Electronic book
Author Diaz, Ella Maria, writer of introduction.
ISBN 9781477329269
1477329269