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Review Winner of the 2018 Organization of American Historians Lawrence W. Levine Award for best book in American cultural history Finalist for the Susanne M Glasscock Humanities Book Prize forInterdisciplinary Scholarship, from the Melbern G. Glasscock Center forHumanities Research at Texas A&M University 'Cary Cordova's�The Heart of the Mission�is a complex, necessary book . . . Cordova's impressive research, which includes extensive archival excavation, artist interviews, and urban fieldwork, reveals an important and previously unexplored history of local activism practiced through Latino poster art, which spread word of the struggles of insurgent movements such as the Nicaraguan Sandinistas; Salvadoran diasporic art; the cultural politics of D�a de los Muertos; and the founding of galleries and community art centers.'--The Journal of American History 'Each chapter in this book could be assigned as a stand-alone article and potentially influence multiple fields.'--Latino Studies'The Beats, jazz, the 1968 student movement and the Central American wars all fueled a Mission Renaissance.�The Heart of the Mission�is a lively guide through this history, but it's also an important book in documenting and contextualizing the work of Mission artists. . . . Perhaps it is time for a retrospective of the Mission Renaissance-one that attempts, as Cordova succeeds in doing, to more than scratch the surface. A retrospective would showcase some of the artists featured in the book-Graciela Carrillo, Ren� Ya�ez, Romeo G. Osorio-as well as the exquisite work by such artists as L�pez, Garcia, Fuentes, Enrique Chagoya, Juan Pablo Guti�rrez and many more.'--Lydia Chavez for MissionLocal.org Read more From the Back Cover 'This is a wonderful book that is felicitously written, passionately argued, and full of information that is otherwise difficult to find. Cary Cordova's study fills a major gap in the current literature on Latino arts movements in the United States, as well as in the cultural history of San Francisco and California.'--Richard C�ndida Smith, University of California, Berkeley'Cary Cordova has unearthed some truly fascinating archival material. Challenging the dominance of a certain type of Chicano art and identity politics, she expands the chronology and geography of Latino Art in the United States to include 1950s tango and jazz and contemporary AIDS activism.'--A. Joan Saab, University of Rochester'A powerful exploration of Latina/o artists in San Francisco, Cary Cordova's The Heart of the Mission offers a compelling and historically nuanced study of the emergence of San Francisco's Latino community.Based on years of meticulous research and collecting of oral history,Cordova's engaging narrative allows the artists to speak through theircreative works, their community organizing, and also through theirpolitical actions, which were transnational in scope and which blendedthe local with the hemispheric.� In so doing, Cordova showcases LaMission as a vibrant space of cultural production.' --Adrian Burgos,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Read more See all Editorial Reviews
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