Cary Cordova on "The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco"

Date
Tue October 24, 2017
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Event Sponsor
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, American Studies Program, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford Arts, Department of Art & Art History
Location
Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall, 4th floor

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Cary Cordova on "The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco"

Stanford's American Studies Program Presents:

Cary Cordova, Associate Professor of American Studies at UT Austin

on her book The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco

In The Heart of the Mission, Cary Cordova combines urban, political, and art history to examine how the Mission District, a longtime bohemian enclave in San Francisco, has served as an important place for an influential and largely ignored Latino arts movement from the 1960s to the present.  Home to Chileans, Cubans, Guatemalans, Mexican Americans, Nicaraguans, Puerto Ricans, and Salvadorans, the Mission never represented a single Latino identity. In tracing the experiences of a diverse group of Latino artists from the 1940s to the turn of the century, Cordova connects wide-ranging aesthetics to a variety of social movements and activist interventions. Using oral histories, visual culture, and archival research, she analyzes the Latin jazz scene of the 1940s, Latino involvement in the avant-garde of the 1950s, the Chicano movement and Third World movements of the 1960s, the community mural movement of the 1970s, the transnational liberation movements in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and the AIDS activism of the 1980s. Through these different historical frames, Cordova links the creation of Latino art with a flowering of Latino politics.

This event is part of American Studies' 2nd Art & Social Criticism Lecture Series and a part of American Studies Borderlands Now, a year-long series of events

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