Walls of empowerment : Chicana/o indigenist murals of California /

Latorre, Guisela, 1970-

Walls of empowerment : Chicana/o indigenist murals of California / Guisela Latorre. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008. - xiii, 292 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-282) and index.

Indigenism and Chicana/o muralism: the radicalization of an aesthetic -- The dialectics of continuity and disruption: Chicana/o and Mexican indigenist murals -- The Chicano movement and indigenist murals: the formation of a nationalist canon and identity -- Graffiti and murals: urban culture and indigenist glyphs -- The Chicana/o mural environment: indigenist aesthetics and urban spaces -- Gender, indigenism, and Chicana muralists -- Murals and postmodernism: post-movimiento, heterogeneity, and new media in Chicana/o indigenism.

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Mexican American mural painting and decoration--Political aspects--California, Southern--20th century.
Street art--California, Southern.
Indians in art.
Pintura mural mexicana.
Arte indígena.

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