The Lowrider Studies Reader

The first book dedicated to lowrider studies in the world, is a powerful groundbreaking book that is a collection of writings from brilliant lowriders from inside and outside the academia speaking on lowrider history, teaching, pedagogy, culture, politics, society, justice, art, language, education, and importance within larger society.

The Lowrider Studies Reader: Culture, Resistance, Liberation, and Familia is the first book dedicated to lowrider studies in the world. This inaugural volume is a powerful groundbreaking book that is a collection of writings from brilliant scholar/practitioners speaking on lowrider history, pedagogy, culture, politics, society, justice, art, language, education, and their significance within the societal schema. Lowrider studies, influenced by beautifully painted hydraulic cars, bicycles with chrome, gold, murals and strolling slow and low, is a growing global field. This book is a must for all Latina/o/x/e studies, Chicana/o/x studies, ethnic studies, sociology, and cultural studies programs. This interdisciplinary and intersectional work emerged from of the 1st Annual International Lowrider Studies Conference, a public and no-cost grassroots effort organized by Save the Kids. Like Hip Hop, lowrider culture is a space and place to divert violence, promote peace, and build familia. Read this book slow and low.

Autorentext

Dr. Anthony J. Nocella II, scholar-activist, is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Salt Lake Community College. He is editor of the Peace Studies Journal, Director of Save the Kids, member of the DreamKeeperz Lowrider Club, and has published over forty books.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments - Dedication - Frank Hernandez: Foreword - SelindaGuerrero: Preface - Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez/William A. Calvo-Quiros/Anthony J. Nocella II/Elizabeth G. Ramos: Introduction - John Ulloa: Cruising into the Classroom: Lowriding as a Pedagogical Practice - Ben Chappell: Aesthetics and the Battle for the Eastside: Google's Lowrider, Chicano Park, and the Performance of Space - Daniel Osorio: East Side Hero - Xris Macias: Our Existence is Resistance - Lea Lani Kinikini/Marlena Wolfgramm: Maui the Lowrider: Healing the House of Trouble - Dionicio Miguel Garcia: Car Clubs to Cohorts - David Escobar: Lowriding as an Ancestral Healing Phenomena - Juan Roman-Medina: It's Not a Hobby, It's My Culture - Martín Morales Ramírez: El Campesino Project: Conciencia y las Raices de Tu Causa - ElizabethG. Ramos: Raza's Membership in Lowrider Car Clubs - Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez: Lowriding Murals: Freeways, Automobiles and Mobility - Estella Inda/Kathryn Blackmer Reyes/Julia Curry Rodriguez: Exploring San José's Lowrider Industries - Luis Alvarez: Afterword - Contributors' Biographies.