Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture

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Act of Faith (band): predecessor, 162 Actos: Mendiola and, 176; as a performance form, 39–40 Aesthetics of resistance: El Vez’s, 189 Aguirre, Carmen: Canadian-born Latinos, 209; Latino population of Vancouver, 257n8; Latino Theatre Group (Vancouver), 3, 208; Theater of the Oppressed, 208; undocumented immigrants in Canada, 208–209 Aguirre, Leena Marie: Lovely El Vettes, 186 AKA Pablo: Gomez (Marga) on, 133 Alarcón, Norma: border feminism, 166; struggle for histories, 168 Alfaro, Luis, 16, 41, 81–111, 82, 104; antihomophobia, 90, 105, 107; antisexism , 90, 107; audience for, 81, 90, 91, 107–108; birth, 85; Black Butterfly, 54, 83; border-crossing, 93, 102; Chicana feminism, 8, 101–103; “Chicana Liberation,” 101–103; Chicana punk rock, 105; on Chicano community, 81; Chicano oppositional theater, 86–88, 106; childhood, 85; Chingón/chingada paradigm, 87–88; community theater, 107–108; cross-dressing by, 90; Deep in the Crotch of My Latino Psycho, 15; “Deseo es Memoria,” 89; Downtown, 10, 83, 84, 89; education, 85; “El Juego de Jotería,” 104–105; empowered women, 101, 107; experiences ignored by mainstream culture , 74; faith, 85; fame, 83; family tensions, 85, 92; father, 85, 101–102, 105, 106; gay male experience , 89; Gomez (Marga) and, 83, 134, 144; Gómez-Peña and, 86; on himself, 81; homophobia, 101; images of poor Mexicans, 16; imagined spaces, 91–92; influence on others, 83; on Los Angeles, 83; Los Vecinos: A Play for Neighbors (with Rodríguez), 108–111; MacArthur award, 3, 82; Mark Taper Forum, 1, 83, 85; membership in marginalized communities, 84; memory plays, 91, 92, 101; memory to, 83–84; misogyny, 101; Moraga and, 86; mother, 84–85, 101–103; new subjects, 107; Norte and, 83; pastorelas, 109; performance spaces, 90–91, 110–111, 239n33; performances by, 11, 81–83, 90–91, 104–105, 106, 108; 287 Index Italicized page numbers refer to an illustration or its caption. Alfaro, Luis (Continued) “Pico-Union,” 82, 89; popular culture , 91, 99; power relationships, 237n13; punk aesthetics, 85; queer sexuality, 101, 107; roller derby, 105; sexuality and ethnicity, 144; social activism, 85–86; Spanglish, 104–105, 106; Spanish Fantasy Heritage, 10; subject matter, 83; subjectivities of, 82, 91; Terreno Peligroso/Danger Zone, 84, 103–106; translations of, 106; True Lies, 82; “Virgin Mary” (see “Virgin Mary” (Alfaro)); VIVA!, 89; on writing, 83–84 Alleycats (band): Chai and, 158 Almaguer, Tomás: sexual identity in Latino families, 65; writings on Chicano gay men, 88 Almaraz, Carlos: Arte Popular, 56 Alonso, María Conchita: casting for Death and the Maiden, 134 Alvin, Dave: Norte and, 46 “Anarchy in the U.K.” (Sex Pistols), 159 Antihomophobia: Alfaro and, 90, 105, 107; El Vez and, 187 Antisexism: Alfaro and, 90, 107; El Vez and, 187 Antiwar movement (1960s): emergence of Teatro Campesino, 36 Anzaldúa, Gloria: border feminism, 166; Spanish borderlands to, 24, 194 Araiza,AlbertAntonio(Beto),16;Deep intheCrotchofMyLatinoPsycho, 15;Gomez(Marga)and,134 Arce, Elia: Terreno Peligroso/Danger Zone, 103 Arias, Ron: LLWW, 56 Armendariz Velasquéz, Alicia (aka Alice Bags), 157, 159; The Bags, 150, 156–160; Cholita, 160; East Los Angeles punk, 46; family, 160; “Happy Accident,” 163–164; in- fluence on Los Angeles punk, 157; Jones on, 157; Las Tres, 160; Lovely El Vettes, 160, 186; McKenna on, 158; noncommercial music, 152–153; performances by, 157, 158–159; Pretty Vacant, 3; on punk, 152; punk’s appeal, 152, 157, 165; renown, 158; sexuality, 158; Stay at Home Bomb, 160; upbringing , 157 Arrizón, Alicia: on Padua Hills Institute , 28; on Palacios (Monica), 114; plays written for Mexican Players, 30 Arte Popular: members, 56 ASCO: “ASCO ’83” exhibit, 57; Chicano cultural renaissance, 56; members, 56; movies, 56–57; Norte and, 53, 55, 56–57 Attitudes (The Brat), 154, 162 Aztlán: Chicano movement, 254n21; Chicano nationalism, 193–194; in Pretty Vacant, 180 “Aztlán” (El Vez), 192–195 Bags, The (band): influence, 157; lead singer, 147, 150; “We Don’t Need the English,” 159 Balderrama, Robert: Question Mark and the Mysterians, 151 Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (film), 173 Bancroft, Hubert Howe: archive of Californios’ memoirs and documents , 18–20; displacement of Mexicans and Native peoples from images of early California, 18–19; influence on Padua Hills Institute, 25; Pitt on, 18; Sánchez on, 19–20 Bangs, Lester: on “96 Tears,” 151 288 | Index Bannon, John Frances: displacement of Mexicans and Native peoples from images of early California...