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Author : Ben Chappell
Release : 2012-07-15
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 866/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lowrider Space by : Ben Chappell
Download or read book Lowrider Space written by Ben Chappell. This book was released on 2012-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores how lowrider car culture allows Mexican Americans to alter the urban landscape and make a place for themselves in an often segregated society"--
Author : Cathy Camper
Release : 2014-11-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 145/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lowriders in Space by : Cathy Camper
Download or read book Lowriders in Space written by Cathy Camper. This book was released on 2014-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lupe Impala, El Chavo Flapjack, and Elirio Malaria love working with cars. You name it, they can fix it. But the team's favorite cars of all are lowriders—cars that hip and hop, dip and drop, go low and slow, bajito y suavecito. The stars align when a contest for the best car around offers a prize of a trunkful of cash—just what the team needs to open their own shop! ¡Ay chihuahua! What will it take to transform a junker into the best car in the universe? Striking, unparalleled art from debut illustrator Raul the Third recalls ballpoint-pen-and-Sharpie desk-drawn doodles, while the story is sketched with Spanish, inked with science facts, and colored with true friendship. With a glossary at the back to provide definitions for Spanish and science terms, this delightful book will educate and entertain in equal measure.
Author : Cathy Camper
Release : 2016-07-05
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 161/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lowriders to the Center of the Earth by : Cathy Camper
Download or read book Lowriders to the Center of the Earth written by Cathy Camper. This book was released on 2016-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lovable trio from the acclaimed Lowriders in Space are back! Lupe Impala, Elirio Malaria, and El Chavo Octopus are living their dream at last. They're the proud owners of their very own garage. But when their beloved cat Genie goes missing, they need to do everything they can to find him. Little do they know the trail will lead them to the realm of Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of the Underworld, who is keeping Genie prisoner! With cool Spanish phrases on every page, a glossary of terms, and an action-packed plot that sneaks in science as well as Aztec lore, Lowriders to the Center of the Earth is a linguistic and visual delight. ¡Que suave!
Author : Ben Chappell
Release : 2012-07-15
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 544/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lowrider Space by : Ben Chappell
Download or read book Lowrider Space written by Ben Chappell. This book was released on 2012-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aren’t lowriders always gangbangers? And, don’t they always hold high status in their neighborhoods? Contrary to both stereotypes, the people who build and drive lowrider cars perform diverse roles while mobilizing a distinctive aesthetic that is sometimes an act of resistance and sometimes of belonging. A fresh application of critical ethnographic methods, Lowrider Space looks beyond media portrayals, high-profile show cars, and famous cruising scenes to bring readers a realistic tour of the “ordinary” lowriders who turn streetscapes into stages on which dynamic identities can be performed.Drawing on firsthand participation in everyday practices of car clubs and cruising in Austin, Texas, Ben Chappell challenges histories of erasure, containment, and class immobility to emphasize the politics of presence evidenced in lowrider custom car style. Sketching out a partially personal map of the lowrider presence in Texas’s capital city, Chappell also explores the interior and exterior adornment of the cars (including the use of images of women’s bodies) and the intersecting production of personal and social space. As he moves through a second-hand economy to procure parts necessary for his own lowrider vehicle, on “service sector” wages, themes of materiality and physical labor intersect with questions of identity, ultimately demonstrating how spaces get made in the process of customizing one’s self.
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Release : 2021-04-13
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Book Rating : 278/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Kristin Bedford: Cruise Night by :
Download or read book Kristin Bedford: Cruise Night written by . This book was released on 2021-04-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes from the Mexican American lowrider life: a clothbound photobook documenting a vibrant LA car culture Known for her quiet portraits of American cultural movements, Los Angeles-based photographer Kristin Bedford's new work, Cruise Night, is an intimate and unstaged exploration of Los Angeles' Mexican American lowrider car culture. From 2014 to 2019 Bedford attended hundreds of lowrider cruise nights, car shows, quinceañeras, weddings and funerals. Her images offer a new visual narrative around the lowrider tradition and invite outsiders to question prevalent societal stereotypes surrounding this urban Mexican American culture. Bedford's photos explore the nuances of cars as mobile canvases and the legendary community that creates them. With bright color photography and a unique female vantage point, Cruise Nightis an original look at a prolific American movement set against the Los Angeles cityscape.
