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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467322503321

Titolo

MeXicana fashions : politics, self-adornment, and identity construction / / edited by Aída Hurtado and Norma E. Cantú

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , 2020

ISBN

1-4773-1960-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 pages)

Disciplina

305.48/86872073

Soggetti

Mexican American women - Clothing

Mexican American women - Ethnic identity

Clothing and dress - Political aspects - United States

Clothing and dress - Social aspects - United States

Fashion - Social aspects - United States

Group identity - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Wearing identity : Chicanas and huipiles / Norma E. Cantú -- Con el huipil en la mente : the metamorphosis of a Chicana / Josie Méndez-Negrete -- "Rebozos, huipiles, y ¿Qué?" : Chicana self-fashioning in the academy / Micaela Díaz-Sánchez -- Por la facha y por el traje, se conoce al personaje : tales about attire as resistance and performativity in a Chicana's life trajectory / Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs -- A familial legacy of Mexicana style / Domino Renee Perez -- Buying the dream : relating "traditional" dress to consumer practices within US quinceañeras / Rachel Valentina González-Martin -- Visuality, corporality, and power / Aída Hurtado -- Black, brown, and fa(t)shionable : the role of fat women of color in the rise of body positivity / Jade D. Petermon -- Fashioning decolonial optics : Days of the Dead, Walking Altars, and Calavera Fashion Shows in Latina/o Los Angeles / Laura Pérez -- "Fierce and fearless" : dress and identity in Rigoberto González's The Mariposa Club / Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez -- Lydia Mendoza, "Reina de la Música Tejana" : self-stylizing Mexicanidad through china poblana in the US-Mexico borderlands / Marci R.



McMahon -- (Ad)dressing Chicana/Latina femininities : consumption, labor, and the cultural politics of style in Latina fashion / Stacy I. Macías -- Urban Xican/X-indigenous fashion show artivism : experimental ethnographies and perform-antics in three actos / Chela Sandoval, Amber Rose González, and Felicia Montes.