{"id":2885,"date":"2012-03-08T14:11:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T14:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2012-03-26T18:01:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:01:56","slug":"richard-t-rodriguez-next-of-kin-the-family-in-chicanoa-cultural-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"Rodriguez, Richard T. Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano\/a Cultural Politics. 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/next_of_kin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/next_of_kin-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"next_of_kin\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/next_of_kin-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/next_of_kin.jpg 322w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs both an idea and an institution, the family has been at the heart of Chicano\/a cultural politics since the Mexican American civil rights movement emerged in the late 1960s. In Next of Kin, Richard T. Rodr\u00edguez explores the competing notions of la familia found in movement-inspired literature, film, video, music, painting, and other forms of cultural expression created by Chicano men. Drawing on cultural studies and feminist and queer theory, he examines representations of the family that reflect and support a patriarchal, heteronormative nationalism as well as those that reconfigure kinship to encompass alternative forms of belonging.<\/p>\n<p>Describing how la familia came to be adopted as an organizing strategy for communitarian politics, Rodr\u00edguez looks at foundational texts including Rodolfo Gonzales\u2019s well-known poem \u201cI Am Joaqu\u00edn,\u201d the Chicano Liberation Youth Conference\u2019s manifesto El Plan Espiritual de Aztl\u00e1n, and Jos\u00e9 Armas\u2019s La Familia de La Raza. Rodr\u00edguez analyzes representations of the family in the films I Am Joaqu\u00edn, Yo Soy Chicano, and Chicana; the Los Angeles public affairs television series \u00a1Ahora!; the experimental videos of the artist-activist Harry Gamboa Jr.; and the work of hip-hop artists such as Kid Frost and Chicano Brotherhood. He reflects on homophobia in Chicano nationalist thought, and examines how Chicano gay men have responded to it in works including Al Lujan\u2019s video S&#038;M in the Hood, the paintings of Eugene Rodr\u00edguez, and a poem by the late activist Rodrigo Reyes. Next of Kin is both a wide-ranging assessment of la familia\u2019s symbolic power and a hopeful call for a more inclusive cultural politics.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Next-Kin-Chicano-Cultural-Politics\/dp\/0822345439\/ref=sr_1_34?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1329223877&#038;sr=1-34\" target=\"_blank\">Buy at Amazon.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Next-Kin-Cultural-Otherwise-Languages\/dp\/0822345439\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books-intl-de&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1332769669&#038;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy at Amazon.de<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As both an idea and an institution, the family has been at the heart of Chicano\/a cultural politics since the Mexican American civil rights movement emerged in the late 1960s. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-publications"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rodriguez, Richard T. 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