Amid the rise of neoliberalism, globalization, and movements for
civil rights and global justice in the post-World War II era,
Chicanxs in film, music, television, and art weaponized culture to
combat often oppressive economic and political conditions. They
envisioned utopias that, even if never fully realized, reimagined
the world and linked seemingly disparate people and places. In the
latter half of the twentieth century, Chicanx popular culture
forged a politics of the possible and gave rise to utopian dreams
that sprang from everyday experiences. In Chicanx Utopias, Luis
Alvarez offers a broad study of these utopian visions from the
1950s to the 2000s. Probing the film Salt of the Earth, brown-eyed
soul music, sitcoms, poster art, and borderlands reggae music, he
examines how Chicanx pop culture, capable of both liberation and
exploitation, fostered interracial and transnational identities,
engaged social movements, and produced varied utopian visions with
divergent possibilities and limits. Grounded in the theoretical
frameworks of Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall, and the Zapatista
movement, this book reveals how Chicanxs articulated pop cultural
utopias to make sense of, challenge, and improve the worlds they
inhabited.
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