MeXicana fashions : politics, self-adornment, and identity construction /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hurtado, Aída (Editor), Cantú, Norma E., 1947- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	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.

Table of Contents:

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.