mexican american graffiti - courtney wolf
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Documents of 20th-centuryLatin American and Latino ArtA DIGITAL ARCHIVE AND PUBLICATIONS PROJECT AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON
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International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
ICAA Record ID: 796234
Access Date: 2013-10-02
Bibliographic Citation:
Snchez- Tranquilino, Marcos. Space, Power, and Youth Culture : Mexican American Grafitti
and Chicano Murals in East Los Angeles, 1972-1978. In Lookig High and Low: Art and Cultural
Identity, 5588. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1995.
Synopsis:
In this essay, Marcos Snchez-Tranquilino maps out the differences and points of contact
between murals linked to the Chicano Movement of the 1970s and graffiti by Mexican-American
youth, specifically youth gang culture. For this essay he uses different case studies of graffiti and
murals in low-income, predominantly working-class, Mexican-American neighborhoods in Los
Angeles. He considers the ways in which the relative legibility of certain visual forms and
systems of communication is part of the construction and differentiation of collective identities.
He cites placas or plaqueasos [gang graffiti insignias] as an example of a visual system of
communication directed at a specific publicthat is, members of the youth gang culture.
Sanchez-Tranquilino asserts that murals by Chicano artists and graffiti by Mexican-American
youth contended for the same spaces. The author also describes specific instances of this
conflict, as well as cases in which murals (or graffiti) blurred the signs between the two practices
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