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The 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.

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The 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

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/07/2012
      ISBN13: 9780292754249, 978-0292754249
      ISBN10: 0292754248
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The 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 Review
      The 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

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