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Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island by Dylan A. T. Miner at Abbey's Bookshop,
Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island
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Dylan A. T. Miner

Creating Aztlán

Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island

Dylan A. T. Miner

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University of Arizona Press
30 October 2014
Naive art
Series: First People: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
In lowriding culture, the ride is many things—both physical and intellectual. Embraced by both Xicano and other Indigenous youth, lowriding takes something very ordinary—a car or bike—and transforms it and claims it.

Using the idea that lowriding is an Indigenous way of being in the world, artist and historian Dylan A. T. Miner discusses the multiple roles that Aztlán has played at various moments in time, from the pre-Cuauhtemoc codices through both Spanish and American colonial regimes, past the Chicano Movement and into the present day. Across this “migration story,” Miner challenges notions of mestizaje and asserts Aztlán, as visualized by Xicano artists, as a form of Indigenous sovereignty.

Throughout this book, Miner employs Indigenous and Native American methodologies to show that Chicano art needs to be understood in the context of Indigenous history, anticolonial struggle, and Native American studies. Miner pays particular attention to art outside the U.S. Southwest and includes discussions of work by Nora Chapa Mendoza, Gilbert “Magú” Luján, Santa Barraza, Malaquías Montoya, Carlos Cortéz Koyokuikatl, Favianna Rodríguez, and Dignidad Rebelde, which includes Melanie Cervantes and Jesús Barraza.

With sixteen pages of color images, this book will be crucial to those interested in art history, anthropology, philosophy, and Chicano and Native American studies.

Creating Aztlán interrogates the historic and important role that Aztlán plays in Chicano and Indigenous art and culture.
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Imprint:   University of Arizona Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   4th
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   426g
ISBN:   9780816530038
ISBN 10:   0816530033
Series:   First People: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dylan A. T. Miner (Métis) is an associate professor at Michigan State University, where he coordinates a new Indigenous contemporary art initiative and is adjunct curator of Indigenous art at the MSU Museum. He has published extensively, including more than fifty journal articles, book chapters, critical essays, and encyclopedia entries. As an artist, he has exhibited globally, is a founding member of the artist’s collective Justseeds and was awarded an Artist Leadership Fellowship from the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.

Reviews for Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island

Creating Aztlan will make a lasting and important contribution to Chicana and Chicano art, discourse, and visual studies. --Arturo J. Aldama, author of Violence and the Body: Race, Gender and the State Miner chronicles the interrelated history of the Aztecs of ancient Mexico, the myth of Aztlan's origins and migration, and how it impacts U.S. Chicanos (Mexican Americans). A cornucopia of information and ideation, the reader also will discover never-before-seen ways Chicano artists have interpreted this Mexican myth in American popular culture. --George Vargas, author of Contemporary Chican@ Art: Color and Culture for a New America


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