Homegirl Aesthetics Inside and Outside of the Ivory Tower: Chicana Adornment as an Infrapolitical Archive

• In Event: 41061 - Section on Latina/o Sociology Roundtables
  In Refereed Roundtable (60 minute): Table 6: Latinx Cultural Identity and Representation in Society

Abstract

By engaging storytelling of experiences with aesthetics and adornment across the life course, this article examines women of color aesthetic practices with an emphasis on Latinas. Constructing their bodies as living archives, I evoke Robin Kelley ’s (1993) “infrapolitics” to demonstrate how- despite continual attempts by outside forces to control and contain them- Latinas use their bodies and aesthetic expression to resist white, middle class, feminine constructs both inside and outside of the academy and the community.

Author

• Marisa D. Salinas, California State University-San Marcos