| The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force Contributor(s): Sauer, Stephanie (Author), Diaz, Ella Maria (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1477308709 ISBN-13: 9781477308707 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | American - Hispanic American - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: 704.036 |
| LCCN: 2015024076 |
| Series: William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Cultur |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 8.3" W x 9.3" (1.60 lbs) 159 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How do you write a history of a group that has been written out of history? In The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force, world-famous archaeologist La Stef and the clandestine Con Sapos Archaeological Collective track down the "facts" about the elusive RCAF, the Rebel Chicano Art Front that, through an understandable mix-up with the Royal Canadian Air Force, became the Royal Chicano Air Force. La Stef and her fellow archaeologists document the plight and locura que cura of the RCAF, a group renowned for its fleet of adobe airplanes, ongoing subversive performance stance, and key role as poster makers for the United Farm Workers Union during the height of the Chicano civil rights movement. As the Con Sapos team uncovers tensions between fact and fiction in historical consciousness and public memory, they abandon didactic instruction and strive instead to offer a historiography in which various cultural paradigms already intersect seamlessly and on equal ground. That they often fail to navigate the blurred lines between "objective" Western archival sciences and Indigenous/Chicana/o cosmologies reflects the very human predicament of documenting the histories of complicated New Worlds everywhere. Uniquely blending art history, oral history, cultural studies, and anthropology, The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force suspends historical realities and leaps through epochs and between conversations with various historical figures, both dead and alive, to offer readers an intimate experience of RCAF history. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sauer, Stephanie: - A cofounding editor of A Bolha Editora and executive editor of Copilot Press, Sauer is an interdisciplinary text-based artist and visiting lecturer at the San Francisco Art Institute. |