TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chappell,Ben
TI  - Lowrider Space: Aesthetics and Politics of Mexican American Custom Cars 
SN  - 9780292737877
AV  - E184.M5 C3837 2012
U1  - 973/.046872 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Automobiles
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Societies, etc
KW  - Lowriders
KW  - Mexican Americans
KW  - Cultural assimilation
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1 Cruising Spaces --; 2 Inside Out. The Ambivalent Aesthetics of Lowrider Interiors --; 3 Auto Bodies --; 4 Work The Producer as Author --; 5 Neither Gangsters nor Santitos --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Reference List --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Aren’t lowriders always gangbangers? And, don’t they always hold high status in their neighborhoods? Contrary to both stereotypes, the people who build and drive lowrider cars perform diverse roles while mobilizing a distinctive aesthetic that is sometimes an act of resistance and sometimes of belonging. A fresh application of critical ethnographic methods, Lowrider Space looks beyond media portrayals, high-profile show cars, and famous cruising scenes to bring readers a realistic tour of the “ordinary” lowriders who turn streetscapes into stages on which dynamic identities can be performed. Drawing on firsthand participation in everyday practices of car clubs and cruising in Austin, Texas, Ben Chappell challenges histories of erasure, containment, and class immobility to emphasize the politics of presence evidenced in lowrider custom car style. Sketching out a partially personal map of the lowrider presence in Texas’s capital city, Chappell also explores the interior and exterior adornment of the cars (including the use of images of women’s bodies) and the intersecting production of personal and social space. As he moves through a second-hand economy to procure parts necessary for his own lowrider vehicle, on “service sector” wages, themes of materiality and physical labor intersect with questions of identity, ultimately demonstrating how spaces get made in the process of customizing one’s self
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/737860
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292737877
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292737877/original
ER  -