Creating Aztlán : Chicano art, indigenous sovereignty, and lowriding across Turtle Island / Dylan A.T. Miner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miner, Dylan A. T., 1976- author.

Series:

First peoples (2010)

First peoples: new directions in indigenous studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American art.

Indian art.

Aztlán in art.

Colonization in art.

Physical Description:

xv, 268 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2014.

Summary:

"Creating Aztlán interrogates the important role of Aztlán in Chicano and Indigenous art and culture. Using the idea that lowriding is an Indigenous way of being, author Dylan A. T. Miner (Métis) discusses the multiple roles that Aztlán has played at various moments in time, engaging pre-colonial indigeneities, alongside colonial, modern, and contemporary Xicano responses to colonization"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Tlilli: Theorizing Aztlán

Chapter 1 Remembering: Utopian Migrations through Aztlán 23

Chapter 2 Naming: Aztlán as Emergence Place 53

Chapter 3 Claiming: Claiming Art, Reclaiming Space 82

Part II Tlapalli: Visualizing Aztlán

Chapter 4 Refraining: Aztlán and La Otra Frontera 113

Chapter 5 Creating: Creating Aztlán, Finding Nepanda 144

Chapter 6 Revitalizing: Aztlán as Native Land 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816530038

0816530033

OCLC:

874901672