{"product_id":"mestizaje-rafael-perez-torres-9780816645954","title":"Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture","description":"Focusing on the often unrecognized role race plays in expressions of Chicano culture, \u003ci\u003eMestizaje\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative exploration of the volatility and mutability of racial identities. In this important moment in Chicano studies, Rafael P駻ez-Torres reveals how the concepts and realities of race, historical memory, the body, and community have both constrained and opened possibilities for forging new and potentially liberating multiracial identities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInformed by a broad-ranging theoretical investigation of identity politics and race and incorporating feminist and queer critiques, P駻ez-Torres skillfully analyzes Chicano cultural production. Contextualizing the history of mestizaje, he shows how the concept of mixed race has been used to engage issues of hybridity and voice and examines the dynamics that make mestizo and mestiza identities resistant to, as well as affirmative of, dominant forms of power. He also addresses the role that mestizaje has played in expressive culture, including the hip-hop music of Cypress Hill and the vibrancy of Chicano poster art. Turning to issues of mestizaje in literary creation, P駻ez-Torres offers critical readings of the works of Emma P駻ez, Gil Cuadros, and Sandra Cisneros, among others. This book concludes with a consideration of the role that the mestizo body plays as a site of elusive or displaced knowledge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving beyond the oppositions--nationalism versus assimilation, men versus women, Texans versus Californians--that have characterized much of Chicano studies, \u003ci\u003eMestizaje\u003c\/i\u003e synthesizes and assesses twenty-five years of pathbreaking thinking to make a case for the core components, sensibilities, and concerns of the discipline. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRafael P駻ez-Torres is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of \u003ci\u003eMovements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins\u003c\/i\u003e, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eTo Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back: Memories of an East LA Outlaw\u003c\/i\u003e, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztl疣, 1970-2000.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rafael Perez-Torres\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816645957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816645954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.30w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2006 pg. 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2006 pg. 76","brand":"Rafael Perez-Torres","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926484517119,"sku":"9780816645954","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_af681d28-c726-4ae1-95b8-5c6ff3de65ae.jpg?v=1681083328","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mestizaje-rafael-perez-torres-9780816645954","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}