Awards

• Commended for MLA Prize 2002

Overview

Struggles over space and resistance to geographic displacement gave rise to much of Chicano history and culture. In this book, the author explores how California Chicano writers, journalists, artists, activists and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programmes and the massive freeway development, and to create and defend a sense of Chicano place identity. Villa opens with a historical overview of the Chicano communities and culture showing how these have developed in response to conflicts over space sicne the US annexation of Mexican territory in the 1840's. The author examines contemporary members of the Chicano intelligentsia.

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Villa's work locates artistic production within its proper social and historical contexts without reducing art to an unmediated reflection of unjust social relations... This will be an important book for scholars in Chicano studies, but perhaps even more important as a model for blending cultural texts with their sociological contexts. -George Lipsitz, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

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Raúl Homero Villa is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

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