Velvet Barrios

PART I: A BARRIO ALTAR (ICONS & HEROES) A Chicana Hagiography for the 21st Century: Ana Castillo's Locas Santas; R.Alcalá The "Macho" Body as Social Malinche; G.S.Estrada In Search of the Authentic Pachuco: An Interpretive Essay; A.Madrid PART II: MYTHIC BARRIOS (CULTURAL MYTHS) Deconstructing the Mythical Homeland: México in Contemporary Chicana Performance; L.Gutiérrez A Poverty of Relations: On Not "Making Familia from Scratch," but Scratching Familia; R.Rodríguez 'Tanto Tiempo Disfrutamos': Chicanas and the Sexual Politics of Chicano Youth Culture in Los Angeles in the 1960s; D.Espinoza The Verse of the Godfather: Unwrapping Masculinity, Familia and Nationalism in Chicano Rap Discourse; R.T.Rodríguez PART III: BARRIO RITES (POPULA RITUALS) Revisiting the Chavez Ravine: Baseball, Urban Renewal and the Gendered Civic Culture of Postwar Los Angeles; E.Avila 'La Quinceañera': Making Gender and Ethnic Identities; K.M.Davalos Only Cauldrons Know the Secrets of Their Soups: Like Water for Chocolate; M.Segovia Cruising Through Low Rider Culture: Chicana/o Identity in the Marketing of Low Rider Magazine; D.M.Sandoval PART IV: BORDER BARRIOS ('A TRADITION OF LONG WALKS') Rights of Passage: From Cultural Schizophrenia to Border Consciousness in Cheech Marín's Born in East L.A.; A.Gaspar de Alba Gendered Bodies and Borders in Chicana/o Performance and Literature; S.Chávez-Silverman Lost in the Cinematic Landscape: Chicanas as Lloronas in Contemporary Film; D.R.Pérez PART V: VELVET BARRIOS (ESTE-REO-TIPOS/STEREOTYPES) Lupe's Song: On the Origins of Mexican/Woman Hating in the United States; D.J.González Resisting "Beauty" and Real Women Have Curves; M.P.Figueroa Out of the Fringe: Desire and Homosexuality in the '90s Latino Theatre; M.T.Marrero Velvet Malinche: Fantasies of "the" Aztec Princess in the Chicana/o Sexual Imagination; C.Rueda Esquibél