Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition

Name: Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition
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ISBN: 9780292728059

ISBN-10: 0292728050

ISBN-13: 9780292728059

Edition: 1997

Authors: Alicia Gaspar de Alba

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"Alicia Gaspar de Alba has written an incisive, provocative, thoughtful, and opinionated book.... I have no doubt that it will become a central text in the fields of Chicano/a studies, feminist studies, ethnic studies, and cultural theory." Bryan J. Wolf, Professor of American Studies and English, Yale University In the early 1990s, a major exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985 toured major museums around the United States. As a first attempt to define and represent Chicano/a art for a national audience, the exhibit attracted both praise and controversy, while raising fundamental questions about the nature of multiculturalism in the U.S. This book presents the…

Book details

Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA, a native of the El Paso/Juï¿½rez border, is Professor and Chair of the Cï¿½sar Chï¿½vez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA. She has published eight other books, including Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master’s House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition.



List of Figures


List of Tables


Pre-Face/Pre-CARA


Acknowledgments


A Theoretical Introduction: Alter-Native Ethnography, a lo rasquache



Open HouseThe Solar of Chicano a Popular Culture: Mi casa [no] es su casaColor Gallery



Cara's Politics of Representation


Through Serpent and Eagle Eyes: Intercultural Collaboration


Out of the House, the Halo, and the Whore's Mask: The Mirror of Malinchismo



Public Reception"Between the Ghetto and the Melting Pot": Popular Hegemony


Conclusion: The Mutation of Multiculturalism



Selected Viewer Comments



The Organizational Structure of the CARA Exhibition


Notes


Bibliography


Index