Description
Book SynopsisThe first ethnographic book devoted to lowrider custom car culture puts a new spin on an aesthetic and mechanical achievement through which Mexican Americans alter the urban landscape and make a place for themselves in an often segregated society.
Trade ReviewThe book is thus an example of a good, systematic analysis of spatial phenomena. The book ultimately explores the myriad ways that these cars can be experienced as spatial phenomena, and how such realities create a compelling visual culture. * American Studies *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Cruising Spaces
- Chapter Two. Inside Out: The Ambivalent Aesthetics of Lowrider Interiors
- Chapter Three. Auto Bodies
- Chapter Four. Work: The Producer as Author
- Chapter Five. Neither Gangsters nor Santitos
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Reference List
- Index
