... that occurs in the everyday cruising practices of lowrider car customizers in Austin, Texas. Lowrider style, practiced mostly, but not exclusively, by Mexican ... of space, I trace the politics inherent in lowrider cruising and the confrontations with police it occasions. From the perspective of lowriders, I present a critique of community policing as ... of government, which has the effects of criminalizing lowriders and subjecting them to heightened levels of surveillance.
Tópico(s): Cultural Industries and Urban Development
2010 - Wiley | City & Society
... inspired by the traditions, techniques, and style of lowrider automobile customization. In order to foreground the critical ... this study also explores the impact of Chicano lowrider practices and aesthetics on U.S. American public ... 1997 video installation in the form of a lowrider pickup truck, is examined in detail, as is ... Power Tools series. Bothartworks incorporate the traditions of lowrider customizing, and thus Chicano vernacular aesthetics, in a ... has worked with independent customizers, who have produced lowrider automobiles and leaf blowers, and through collaboration recustomized ...
Tópico(s): Music History and Culture
2004 - Michigan State University Press | CR The New Centennial Review
Los lowriders son grupos urbanos que se visibilizan al circular por las calles de la ciudad en un automóvil ... El presente trabajo analiza la construcción de identidades lowrider en Tijuana, Baja California, y el reforzamiento de ...
Tópico(s): Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
2014 - | Desacatos
... amid vibrations to questions of social groups, particularly lowrider and hip-hop cultures in Los Angeles in ... dynamic links between music and its place.KEYWORDS: lowrider carsrhythmauditory latchingvibrationhip hop
Tópico(s): Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
2008 - Routledge | The Senses and Society
Alejandro Gradilla, Juan José Bustamante,
... examines the narrative and visual construct of the lowrider vehicle as part of the barrio aesthetic. The central argument is that the display of lowrider art can be better understood as an artistic ... provide exceptional insights into the analyses of aesthetic lowrider displays from the margins. We use this approach to theoretically frame lowriders’ artistic representations as a Chicana/o identity effort ... and South Haven as well as from two lowrider car shows in the state of Michigan. This study found that lowrider art works as a source of stability and ...
Tópico(s): Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
2020 - SAGE Publishing | Humanity & Society
... See Gil Griffin's "Taking the Wheel: Female Lowriders find their Place on the Road" in San ...
Tópico(s): Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
2009 - Taylor & Francis | Social Epistemology
Tópico(s): Latin American and Latino Studies
2012 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
... account of the racially-driven removal of Hispanic 'lowriders' from the streets of Denver and Vallianatos' account ...
Tópico(s): Urban Transport and Accessibility
2015 - Liverpool University Press | Town Planning Review
... and new identities. An examination of Española area lowriders highlights the ways extralocal processes such as mass ...
Tópico(s): Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
1998 - Wiley | American Ethnologist
... car cultures, including hot rods, custom cars, and lowriders in addition to the large output of films ...
Tópico(s): Latin American and Latino Studies
2010 - Equinox Publishing | Popular Music History
Well researched and deftly argued, Lowrider Space examines Mexican American lowriders in Austin, Texas during the late 1990s and early 2000s. With a keen ethnographic eye, Ben ...
Tópico(s): Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
2014 - Taylor & Francis | Social & Cultural Geography
Cornelia Sears, Jessica Johnston,
... and to lovingly inspect his car. As a lowrider, a customised vehicle that “begin[s] with the ...
Tópico(s): Cinema and Media Studies
2010 - Queensland University of Technology | M/C Journal
Guadalupe Liliana Rivera Sánchez,
Tópico(s): Latin American rural development
2016 - El Colegio de México | Estudios Sociológicos de El Colegio de México
... 2004). Devils or angels? Literacy and discourse in lowrider culture. In J. Mahiri (Ed.), What they don' ...
Tópico(s): Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
2006 - Wiley | Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education
... and hubcaps; the horses are replaced by pristine lowrider cars. The play's climactic battle between Prince ...
Tópico(s): Latin American and Latino Studies
2017 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Theatre topics
Reviewed by: Lowrider Space: Aesthetics and Politics of Mexican American Custom Cars by Ben Chappell Travis Nygard Lowrider Space: Aesthetics and Politics of Mexican American Custom ... Ben Chappell. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2012. Lowrider Space is a pleasurable book to read, which ... in Austin, [End Page 187] Texas, which celebrates lowrider cars. One of the most intriguing aspects of the book is the meticulous documentation of how lowriders are created. As the book explains, the suspension ... and others in color. He includes reproductions from Lowrider Magazine, photographs of model cars, and other examples ...
Tópico(s): Latin American and Latino Studies
2014 - American studies | American studies
Reviewed by: Lowriders Blast from the Past by Cathy Camper Elizabeth Bush Camper, Cathy Lowriders Blast from the Past; illus. by Raúl the Third. Chronicle, 2018 128p (Lowriders) Trade ed. ISBN 978-1-4521-6315-4 $ ... Gr. 4-7 The third title in the Lowriders series (Lowriders in Space, BCCB 1/15 and Lowriders to the Center of the Earth, BCCB 7/ ... s moms get ready to enter their own lowrider in the car show, which those lying, cheating ... the Third's signature pen work that keeps Lowriders polished and gleaming. It's hard to know ...
2018 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Reviewed by: Lowriders in Space by Cathy Camper April Spisak Camper, Cathy Lowriders in Space; illus. by Raúl the Third. Chronicle, 2014 111p (Lowriders) ISBN 978-1-4521-2155-0 $22.99 ... Gr. 5–9 This buoyant graphic novel highlights lowrider culture with all the flair the subject deserves. ... glossary, artist note, an impeccably edited note about lowriders, and an epilogue. While the author makes it ...
Tópico(s): Comics and Graphic Narratives
2014 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Reviewed by: Lowriders to the Center of the Earth by Cathy Camper April Spisak Camper, Cathy Lowriders to the Center of the Earth; illus. by ... have done it twice now, first with with Lowriders in Space (BCCB 1/15) and now with Lowriders to the Center of the Earth. This second ... their own to work on those sweet, sweet lowriders. Now they’re reaping the benefits of their ...
Tópico(s): Science Education and Perceptions
2016 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Book Review| September 01 2018 Review: San Diego Lowriders: A History of Cars and Cruising, by Alberto López Pulido and Rigoberto “Rigo” Reyes SAN DIEGO LOWRIDERS: A HISTORY OF CARS AND CRUISING. By Alberto ... Search Site Citation Itza Vilaboy; Review: San Diego Lowriders: A History of Cars and Cruising, by Alberto ...
Tópico(s): Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
2018 - | Aztlán A Journal of Chicano Studies
Lowrider culture in Southern California and within Chicana/o social relations is a powerful example of minoritarian ... aesthetic, political, and gendered cultural object. Linking the lowrider enthusiast’s body and this cultural object—their ... of self-inscription reifıes an alternative understanding of lowrider identities.
2024 - Cambridge University Press | TDR/The Drama Review
Tópico(s): Latin American Urban Studies
2016 - El Colegio de México | Estudios Sociológicos de El Colegio de México
... Entries for popular culture include, "Boxing," "Hip-Hop," "Lowriders," and "Professional Wrestling."Essays about institutions and organizations ...
Tópico(s): Colonialism, slavery, and trade
2010 - American Library Association | Reference & User Services Quarterly
Tópico(s): Fashion and Cultural Textiles
2014 - Palgrave Macmillan | Latino Studies
... at Arizona State University for his work on lowriders aesthetics. He is currently a PhD candidate in ...
Tópico(s): Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
2014 - | Aztlán A Journal of Chicano Studies
Tópico(s): Latin American rural development
2016 - El Colegio de México | Estudios Sociológicos de El Colegio de México
Tópico(s): Geography and Environmental Studies in Latin America
2016 - El Colegio de México | Estudios Sociológicos de El Colegio de México
Tópico(s): Geographies of human-animal interactions
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Vehicles
Conventionally, a "Lowrider" is understood to be “a motor vehicle having customized hydraulics that lower the chassis close to the ground” (“ ... whole content of the word. While, yes, a Lowrider is definitely a car, or even a bike, ... who drives that vehicle is also called a Lowrider. To take this term to an even broader level, any person who lives the Lowrider lifestyle or who is involved with Lowriders (vehicles or people) could be considered a Lowrider. In this paper, I aim to explain what the Lowrider lifestyle is: the life of the underdog, the ...
Tópico(s): Latin American and Latino Studies
2022 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... Taylor's epic tales. And the genre-defying Lowriders series brings quirkiness and adventure, along with a ... clear some shelf space for them. Camper, Cathy. Lowriders in Space; illus. by Raúl the Third. Chronicle, 2014. Gr. 5-9 (BCCB 1/15) ———. Lowriders to the Center of the Earth; illus. by ... Chronicle, 2016. Gr. 5-9 (BCCB 7/16) ———. Lowriders Blast from the Past; illus. by Raúl the ... a garage of their own to work on lowriders. The magnificent red, blue, and black pen drawings ... in the cultural and technological details of the lowrider world. Hatke, Ben. Mighty Jack; written and illus. ...
Tópico(s): Child Development and Digital Technology
2019 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books