| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
La pinta : history, culture, and ideology in Chicana/o convict discourse -- Toward a materialist history of Chicana/o criminality : Modesta Avila as paradigmatic pinta -- Chicana/o archetypes : Jimmy Santiago Baca and the pinto picaresque -- Declamatory pinto poetry : the masculinist poetics and materialist politics of Ricardo Sánchez's Poesía de chingazos -- The pinto political unconscious : tattoos, abjection, and agency in Raúl Salinas's convict body altars -- Hollywood placas : semiotics, spectatorship, and ideology in American me -- The pinto as palimpsest : Fred Gómez Carrasco and the south Texas culture wars -- Judy Lucero's gynocritical prison poetics and materialist Chicana politics -- Writing resistance? : academic institutions, ideology, and 'prison work' -- Pinta/os, human rights regimes, and a new paradigm for U.S. prisoner rights activism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-312) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mexican American prisoners.
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Mexican American prisoners -- Political activity
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Prisoners -- Civil rights -- United States
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Mexican Americans in popular culture -- United States
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Prisoners in popular culture -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Mexican American prisoners
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Mexican Americans in popular culture
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Prisoners -- Civil rights
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Prisoners in popular culture
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780292793446 |
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0292793448 |
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0292719604 |
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9780292719606 |
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0292719612 |
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9780292719613 |
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