The Performance of Chicano Masculinity in Lowrider Car Culture:

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" The Performance of Chicano Masculinity in Lowrider Car Culture: "
Chavez, Michael Juan Mirande, Alfredo

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	904493
Doc. No	:	TL13f4z6xf
Main Entry	:	Chavez, Michael Juan
Title & Author	:	The Performance of Chicano Masculinity in Lowrider Car Culture:\ Chavez, Michael JuanMirande, Alfredo
College	:	UC Riverside
Date	:	2012
student score	:	2012
Abstract	:	This project is a qualitative exploration of masculinity, race, sexuality, and identity found within the lowrider style of automobile customization. By employing the frameworks of homosociality, visual sovereignty, and rasquachismo, I map the terrain of Chicano masculinity as it is intertwined with car culture. Using an insider perspective, I find that the production of identity in this arena is far more complex and nuanced than it appears on the surface. The men discussed in this study produce their social location using mechanisms that often contradict commonly held assumptions about lowriding. They have intricate strategies to appropriate and manipulate power while at the same time constructing gender and sexual identity that is quite common to hegemonic standards of heteronormativity.
Added Entry	:	Mirande, Alfredo
Added Entry	:	UC Riverside