Contracting Chicano Culture

Year 2000, Issue: 12, 13 - 24, 01.10.2000

Carl Gutierrez-jones

Abstract

This essay constitutes one step in an ongoing project devoted to analyzing the combative dialogue that exists between Chicano culture and legal discourse. The official desires of the academic institution necessarily condition this project; yet, as powerful as these desires may be, they may be transgressed through "criminal" acts of reading and writing, in art as well as criticism. Ultimately, the works I will discuss may be both legal and criminal, both compromise and combat. Inasmuch as the academic institution offers this writing about Chicano culture a "proper place" from which to speak, it enables my project

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