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The Heart of the Mission : Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco / Cary Cordova.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cordova, Cary, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American History.
- American Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Sociology.
- Urban Studies.
- Mission District (San Francisco, Calif.)--History--20th century.
- Mission District (San Francisco, Calif.).
- Local Subjects:
- American History.
- American Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Sociology.
- Urban Studies.
- Genre:
- History
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University of Pennsylvania Press 2017
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- The Heart of the Mission is the first in-depth examination of the Latino arts renaissance in San Francisco's Mission District in the latter twentieth century. Using evocative oral histories and archival research, Cordova highlights the rise of a vibrant intellectual community grounded in avant-garde aesthetics and radical politics.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Real Life and the Nightlife in San Francisco's Latin Quarter
- Chapter 2. Freedom in the Beats: Latino Artists and the 1950s Counterculture
- Chapter 3. La Raza Unida: Pan- Latino Art and Culture in 1960s San Francisco
- Chapter 4. The Third World Strike and the Globalization of Chicano Art
- Chapter 5. Hombres y Mujeres Muralistas on a Mission: Painting Latino Identities in 1970s San Francisco
- Chapter 6. Th e Mission in Nicaragua: San Francisco Poets Go to War
- Chapter 7. The Activist Art of a Salvadoran Diaspora: Abstraction, War, and Memory in San Francisco
- Chapter 8. The Politics of Día de los Muertos: Mourning, Art, and Activism
- Epilogue: This Place Is Love
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-299) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jun 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9780812294149
- 0812294149
- OCLC:
- 987081634
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