TY - BOOK AU - González,Rachel Valentina TI - Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities SN - 9781477319703 AV - GT2490 .G66 2019 U1 - 394.2 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Austin : PB - University of Texas Press, KW - Hispanic American consumers KW - United States KW - Hispanic Americans KW - Ethnic identity KW - Social life and customs KW - 21st century KW - Quinceañera (Social custom) KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction. Coming Out Latinx --; Chapter 1. Quinceañera Style and Class Performativity --; Chapter 2. Identity off the Rack: Selling Quinceañera Dresses and Manufacturing Identities in the Experience Economy --; Chapter 3. Coming of Age in the Digital Barrio: Quinceañera as a Product in Cultural Economies Online --; Chapter 4. Made in Mexico, USA: Beauty Professionals and the Manufacturing of Quinceañera Beauty Culture --; Chapter 5. Ambivalent Embodiment: Reconstituting Quinceañera Performance Space --; Conclusion. Rights/Rites and Representation: Reading Latinx Social Performance --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access N2 - Quinceañera celebrations, which recognize a girl’s transition to young womanhood at age fifteen, are practiced in Latinx communities throughout the Americas. But in the consumer-driven United States, the ritual has evolved from a largely religious ceremony to an elaborate party where social status takes center stage. Examining the many facets of this contemporary debut experience, Quinceañera Style reports on ethnographic fieldwork in California, Texas, the Midwest, and Mexico City to reveal a complex, compelling story. Along the way, we meet a self-identified transwoman who uses the quinceañera as an intellectual space in her activist performance art. We explore the economic empowerment of women who own barrio boutiques specializing in the quinceañera’s many accessories and made-in-China gowns. And, of course, we meet teens themselves, including a vlogger whose quince-planning tips have made her an online sensation. Disrupting assumptions, such as the belief that Latino communities in the United States can’t desire upward mobility without abandoning ethnoracial cultural legacies, Quinceañera Style also underscores the performative nature of class and the process of constructing a self in the public, digital sphere UR - https://doi.org/10.7560/319680 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477319703 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477319703/original ER -