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Gaspar de Alba, Alicia, 1958-

Chicano art inside/outside the master's house : cultural politics and the CARA exhibition / by Alicia Gaspar de Alba.

1st ed.

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1998.

xxi, 308 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Interdisciplinary cultural study and discussion of an exhibition of Mexican-American art, known as C.A.R.A. (Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation) which toured mainstream U.S. museums between 1990-1993.

Mexican American art.

Politics in art.

Mexican American art -- Public opinion.

Mexican Americans -- Civil rights.

Interdisciplinary cultural study and discussion of an exhibition of Mexican-American art, known as C.A.R.A. (Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation) which toured mainstream U.S. museums between 1990-1993.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-296) and index.

Pre-Face/Pre-CARA -- Theoretical Introduction: Alter-Native Ethnography, a lo rasquache -- Open House -- Solar of Chicano/a Popular Culture: Mi casa [no] es su caso -- Cara's Politics of Representation -- Through Serpent and Eagle Eyes: Intercultural Collaboration -- Out of the House, the Halo, and the Whore's Mask: The Mirror of Malinchismo -- Public Reception -- "Between the Ghetto and the Melting Pot": Popular Hegemony. Conclusion: The Mutation of Multiculturalism -- Selected Viewer Comments -- Organizational Structure of the CARA Exhibition.

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