Creating Aztlán : Chicano art, indigenous sovereignty, and lowriding across Turtle Island /

Creating Aztlán : Chicano art, indigenous sovereignty, and lowriding across Turtle Island /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Miner, Dylan A. T., 1976- author.
Imprint:	Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2014.
Description:	xv, 268 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	First peoples: new directions in indigenous studies First peoples (2010)
Subject:	Mexican American art. Indian art. Aztlán in art. Colonization in art. Aztlán in art. Colonization in art. Indian art. Mexican American art.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10093334

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ISBN:	9780816530038 0816530033 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Indigenizing
Part I. Tlilli: Theorizing Aztlán
Chapter 1. Remembering: Utopian Migrations through Aztlán
Chapter 2. Naming: Aztlán as Emergence Place
Chapter 3. Claiming: Claiming Art, Reclaiming Space
Part II. Tlapalli: Visualizing Aztlán
Chapter 4. Refraining: Aztlán and La Otra Frontera
Chapter 5. Creating: Creating Aztlán, Finding Nepanda
Chapter 6. Revitalizing: Aztlán as Native Land
Postscript. Returning: jack Forbes, Mestizaje, and Aztlan
Notes
Works Cited
Index