La Pinta : Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics /
Olguín, B. V.
La Pinta : Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics / B. V. Olguín. - 1 online resource (336 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. La Pinta -- PART ONE: LAND AND LIBERTY -- CHAPTER 1. Toward a Materialist History of Chicana/o Criminality -- CHAPTER 2. Chicana/o Archetypes -- PART TWO: EMBODIED DISCOURSES -- CHAPTER 3. Declamatory Pinto Poetry -- CHAPTER 4. The Pinto Political Unconscious -- PART THREE: CRIME AND COMMODIFICATION -- CHAPTER 5. Hollywood Placas -- CHAPTER 6. The Pinto as Palimpsest -- PART FOUR: STORMING THE TOWER -- CHAPTER 7. Judy Lucero’s Gynocritical Prison Poetics and Materialist Chicana Politics -- CHAPTER 8. Writing Resistance? -- CONCLUSION. Pinta/os, Human Rights Regimes, and a New Paradigm for U.S. Prisoner Rights Activism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In this groundbreaking study based on archival research about Chicana and Chicano prisoners—known as Pintas and Pintos—as well as fresh interpretations of works by renowned Pinta and Pinto authors and activists, B. V. Olguín provides crucial insights into the central roles that incarceration and the incarcerated have played in the evolution of Chicana/o history, cultural paradigms, and oppositional political praxis. This is the first text on prisoners in general, and Chicana/o and Latina/o prisoners in particular, that provides a range of case studies from the nineteenth century to the present. Olguín places multiple approaches in dialogue through the pairing of representational figures in the history of Chicana/o incarceration with specific themes and topics. Case studies on the first nineteenth-century Chicana prisoner in San Quentin State Prison, Modesta Avila; renowned late-twentieth-century Chicano poets Raúl Salinas, Ricardo Sánchez, and Jimmy Santiago Baca; lesser-known Chicana pinta and author Judy Lucero; and infamous Chicano drug baron and social bandit Fred Gómez Carrasco are aligned with themes from popular culture such as prisoner tattoo art and handkerchief art, Hollywood Chicana/o gangxploitation and the prisoner film American Me, and prisoner education projects. Olguín provides a refreshing critical interrogation of Chicana/o subaltern agency, which too often is celebrated as unambiguously resistant and oppositional. As such, this study challenges long-held presumptions about Chicana/o cultures of resistance and proposes important explorations of the complex and contradictory relationship between Chicana/o agency and ideology.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292793446
10.7560/719606 doi
Mexican American prisoners--Political activity.
Mexican American prisoners.
Mexican Americans in popular culture--United States.
Prisoners in popular culture--United States.
Prisoners--Civil rights--United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
HV9466 / .O54 2010eb
365/.608968073
La Pinta : Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics / B. V. Olguín. - 1 online resource (336 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. La Pinta -- PART ONE: LAND AND LIBERTY -- CHAPTER 1. Toward a Materialist History of Chicana/o Criminality -- CHAPTER 2. Chicana/o Archetypes -- PART TWO: EMBODIED DISCOURSES -- CHAPTER 3. Declamatory Pinto Poetry -- CHAPTER 4. The Pinto Political Unconscious -- PART THREE: CRIME AND COMMODIFICATION -- CHAPTER 5. Hollywood Placas -- CHAPTER 6. The Pinto as Palimpsest -- PART FOUR: STORMING THE TOWER -- CHAPTER 7. Judy Lucero’s Gynocritical Prison Poetics and Materialist Chicana Politics -- CHAPTER 8. Writing Resistance? -- CONCLUSION. Pinta/os, Human Rights Regimes, and a New Paradigm for U.S. Prisoner Rights Activism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In this groundbreaking study based on archival research about Chicana and Chicano prisoners—known as Pintas and Pintos—as well as fresh interpretations of works by renowned Pinta and Pinto authors and activists, B. V. Olguín provides crucial insights into the central roles that incarceration and the incarcerated have played in the evolution of Chicana/o history, cultural paradigms, and oppositional political praxis. This is the first text on prisoners in general, and Chicana/o and Latina/o prisoners in particular, that provides a range of case studies from the nineteenth century to the present. Olguín places multiple approaches in dialogue through the pairing of representational figures in the history of Chicana/o incarceration with specific themes and topics. Case studies on the first nineteenth-century Chicana prisoner in San Quentin State Prison, Modesta Avila; renowned late-twentieth-century Chicano poets Raúl Salinas, Ricardo Sánchez, and Jimmy Santiago Baca; lesser-known Chicana pinta and author Judy Lucero; and infamous Chicano drug baron and social bandit Fred Gómez Carrasco are aligned with themes from popular culture such as prisoner tattoo art and handkerchief art, Hollywood Chicana/o gangxploitation and the prisoner film American Me, and prisoner education projects. Olguín provides a refreshing critical interrogation of Chicana/o subaltern agency, which too often is celebrated as unambiguously resistant and oppositional. As such, this study challenges long-held presumptions about Chicana/o cultures of resistance and proposes important explorations of the complex and contradictory relationship between Chicana/o agency and ideology.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292793446
10.7560/719606 doi
Mexican American prisoners--Political activity.
Mexican American prisoners.
Mexican Americans in popular culture--United States.
Prisoners in popular culture--United States.
Prisoners--Civil rights--United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
HV9466 / .O54 2010eb
365/.608968073