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Customized by
ISBN: 9780810957275Publication Date: 2000-10-01Contains works of art in all sorts of media, inspired by custom cars and hot rods. Artists featured in the book include, Ed Big Daddy Roth, Von Dutch, Robert Williams, Richard Prince, Rubin Ortiz Torres, Sylvie Fleury and Fiona Banner. -
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Peer Reviewed Articles:
- Alberto López Pulido and Rigoberto "Rigo" Reyes's San Diego Lowriders: A History of Cars and Cruising
By: Itza Vilaboy - Custom Contestations: Lowriders and Urban Space
By: Ben Chappell - Customized Hybrids: The Art of Rubén Ortiz Torres and Lowriding in Southern California
By: C. Ondine Chavoya - "Heart Like a Car": Hispano/Chicano Culture in Northern New Mexico
By: Brenda Bright - Rethinking Lowrider Artistic Representations: An Aesthetic Response to Social Exclusion
By: Alejandro Gradilla and Juan José Bustamante - When the Silenced Speak: The Textualization and Complications of Latina/o Identity
By: Fernando P. Delgado
Journalism (Non Peer Reviewed) Articles:
- Gypsy Rose: Mr. Valadez goes to Washington: Gypsy Rose, the most famous low rider of them all, takes its rightful place in the pantheon of American auto history
By: Arthur St. Antoine - Low and Slow, Mean and Clean
By: William Gradante - Lowrider Market Grabs Mainstream Attention
By: Chris Lesser - Lowriders
By: Alma Alvarez and Cordelia C. Candelaria - Lowriders Are High-Riding Retail Success
By: Jessica Studley - The History of Lowrider Culture and its Multigenerational Reach
By Iman Maani
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Bajito y Suavecito/Low and Slow: Cruising through Lowrider Culture
By: Denise M. Sandoval - Cruising for Community: Youth Culture and Politics in Los Angeles, 1910-1970
By: Matthew Allan Ides - Hittin' the Switch
By: Maclovio Mike Cantú - "It's Part of My Culture": A Study on Lowrider Cars as an Aesthetic Identity for Chicana/o Communities
By: Alejandro Gradilla - Kustoms
By: Thomas Lomeli - Lowrider Art: Latino Visual Literacy and Border Knowledge
By: Peter Moreau Cowan - Mexican American Low Riders: An Anthropological Approach to Popular Culture
By: Brenda Jo Bright - Rooster Tails, Ranflas, and Rags: The Language and Literacy Practices of Latin@ Lowriders in San Antonio, TX
By: Sonia N. Sanchez - The Lived Experience of La Raza's Membership in Lowrider Car Clubs: A Phenomenological Study
By: Elizabeth G. Ramos - The Performance of Chicano Masculinity in Lowrider Car Culture: The Erotic Triangle, Visual Sovereignty, and Rasquachismo
By: Michael Juan Chavez - "Who Says Lowriders Are Only for Men?": Lowriders in Las Vegas, Nevada
By: Alejandra Herrera
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