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MeXicana fashions : politics, self-adornment, and identity construction / edited by A�ida Hurtado and Norma E. Cant�u. - First edition. - 1 online resource (337 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Wearing identity : Chicanas and huipiles / Norma E. Cant�u -- Con el huipil en la mente : the metamorphosis of a Chicana / Josie M�endez-Negrete -- "Rebozos, huipiles, y ��Qu�e?" : Chicana self-fashioning in the academy / Micaela D�iaz-S�anchez -- 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 Guti�errez y Muhs -- A familial legacy of Mexicana style / Domino Renee Perez -- Buying the dream : relating "traditional" dress to consumer practices within US quincea�neras / Rachel Valentina Gonz�alez-Martin -- Visuality, corporality, and power / A�ida 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 P�erez -- "Fierce and fearless" : dress and identity in Rigoberto Gonz�alez's The Mariposa Club / Sonia Alejandra Rodr�iguez -- Lydia Mendoza, "Reina de la M�usica 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. Mac�ias -- Urban Xican/X-indigenous fashion show artivism : experimental ethnographies and perform-antics in three actos / Chela Sandoval, Amber Rose Gonz�alez, and Felicia Montes.

9781477319604 (e-book)


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.


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