Lowrider Space: Aesthetics and Politics of Mexican American Custom Cars

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Index Page numbers in italics indicate images. aesthetic experience, 22 aesthetics: bourgeois, 66–67, 78, 80, 92, 100; defined, 22, 204; funereal, 83, 85–86; gangster, 169–171, 214n2; gendered visual, 79; generative, 202; lowrider, 3, 13, 17–18, 21, 68, 79, 87, 92, 97, 99–100, 169, 201, 205; and politics, 21–22, 66, 97, 203–204; popular, 2, 8, 34–35, 75, 81–82, 169, 204; of space, 34, 75, 169; working-class, 67 affect, 22–24, 33, 87, 107, 174; and politics, 134–135, 202; and space, 16, 20, 22–25, 45–46, 51, 97, 202 affectivity, 9, 21–24, 33, 98, 174, 208 Alarcón, Norma, 8 Almanza, Susana, 209n14 Alvarez, Raúl, 209n14 ambivalence, 71, 99–100, 104, 133–134, 213n18 American Me (1992), 175 Anderson, Benedict, 26, 110 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 134 Appadurai, Arjun, 26 artists, engagement with lowriders, 93, 125, 213n17 assimilation, 27–28, 100 Austin, 38, 39; changes in, 37, 142; cruising , 32, 34, 41; diversity of, 6, 11, 33; East, 37, 40–42, 45, 52, 72, 194–195, 209n2; geography, 2, 24, 32–33, 37–38, 41, 60, 72, 142; Mexican American, 27–28, 44; North, 192; South, 39–41, 72, 174, 209n4; West, 25, 39, 90, 162 Austin American-Statesman, 118, 141, 169 Austin Police Department, 172, 191–192, 201n8, 215n5–6 autotopographies, 7, 75 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 97 baroque, 67–68, 77, 78–79, 80, 85–86, 211n4 barrio, 4, 25–26, 33, 43, 47, 50–51, 100, 110, 116, 140, 178, 187 236 lowrider space barrioization, 25, 36, 44–45, 50, 202 barriology, 25–26, 33, 36, 45, 60, 76, 82, 92, 100, 169, 170–171, 174–175, 186–187 Barthes, Roland, 22, 65 Baudrillard, Jean, 67 Benjamin, Walter, 86, 92, 150, 202–203, 211n8, 214n4 Berland, Jody, 7–8 Berlant, Lauren, 23 Blood In, Blood Out (1993), 175 Boulevard Nights (1979), 106, 188 Bourdieu, Pierre, 67, 81, 208n11 Boyz n the Hood (1991), 94, 188 Bright, Brenda Jo, 88, 121–122, 207n1 Butler, Judith, 172 car culture, U.S., 16, 64, 72, 81, 98, 102, 135 carnivalesque, 63, 92, 123 Cars (2006), 82, 102 Chambers, Ross, 66, 204 Chaplin, Charlie, 89 Chávez, César, 109, 212n5 Chavoya, Ondine, 13 Chicano Park, 9–11, 10–13, 32, 41, 89–90, 105, 189, 195 Cintron, Ralph, 163–164, 214n4 Cisneros, Sandra, 106 citizenship, 24, 71, 73, 188, 207n2 class, 18; and academia, position of, 111, 118, 138, 139–141, 145; and aesthetics, 67–68, 99; and consumption, 79–82, 87; and lowriders, position of, 28, 53–54, 64, 68, 107, 111, 127–128, 138, 141–142, 165, 180, 208n2; and the “new economy,” 165–166; and space, 21–22, 24, 33, 39–41, 48, 71, 74, 96, 192, 216n15; and violence, 21; and work, 139–140, 163, 166. See also aesthetics; economy: “new”; work: hierarchical value of Cohen, Liz, 125 Colors (1988), 4 community policing, 21, 191–195, 215n133 conspicuous production, 88 consumption, 27–28, 64–67, 71, 73, 76, 79–82, 87–89, 92, 98, 100, 205, 211n5, 214n1; gendered, of visual media, 114, 119, 122–123 contestation, 7, 24–25, 34, 60, 166, 169, 181, 201 contests, bikini and hardbody, 117–118, 121–123 counter-cartography, 29, 35, 59–60; and remapping, 50 cruising, 10–13, 13, 25, 31–35, 34, 46–51, 60, 63, 73, 105–106, 114, 182, 185, 188–191, 195–196, 199–200, 206 culture: anthropological concept, 6–7; expressive, 15, 18, 172, 202; generative concept, 24, 30, 135, 202, 205, 208n11; media/industry, 14, 29, 65, 82, 89, 103–104, 108–110, 117–118, 121, 123, 126, 128, 212n13; popular, 8, 40, 65, 98, 119, 139, 185–186, 201, 212n13. See also consumption Cuneo, Joan, 129 customization, 2, 6, 8, 14–15, 17, 22, 59, 65–66, 73, 78, 81–82, 87–89, 97, 99, 126 “Dave’s Dream” car, 83. See also memorial cars Davis, Mike, 171 Dazza, 116–117 Del Valle, 41, 73 Deutsche, Rosalyn, 209n12 Día de la Raza, 46 dialectics, 36–37, 99–100 discourse, 19–20, 24, 82, 107 Eastside, 11, 25, 43, 38, 39, 40–45, 72, 41–42, 47–51, 72, 90, 145, 193–195, 197, 209n2, 216n15 Eazy-E, 86 economy: automotive, 66, 76, 81, 82, 87, 140, 151–156, 158; barter and trade, index 237 158–160; housing, 50, 71, 74–75; illegal, 140–141; “new,” 9...