| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (x, 211 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
Quinceañera celebrations, which recognize a girl's transition to young womanhood at age fifteen, are practiced in Latinx communities throughout the Americas. But in the consumer-driven United States, the ritual has evolved from a largely religious ceremony to an elaborate party where social status takes center stage. Examining the many facets of this contemporary debut experience, Quinceañera Style reports on ethnographic fieldwork in California, Texas, the Midwest, and Mexico City to reveal a complex, compelling story. Along the way, we meet a self-identified transwoman who uses the quinceañera as an intellectual space in her activist performance art. We explore the economic empowerment of women who own barrio boutiques specializing in the quinceañera's many accessories and made-in-China gowns. And, of course, we meet teens themselves, including a vlogger whose quince-planning tips have made her an online sensation. Disrupting assumptions, such as the belief that Latino communities in the United States can't desire upward mobility without abandoning ethnoracial cultural legacies, Quinceañera Style also underscores the performative nature of class and the process of constructing a self in the public, digital sphere |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Coming out Latinx -- Quinceañera style and class performativity -- Identity off the rack : selling quinceañera dresses and manufacturing identities in the experience economy -- Coming of age in the digital barrio : quinceañera as a product in cultural economies online -- Made in Mexico, USA : beauty professionals and the manufacturing of quinceañera beauty culture -- Ambivalent embodiment : reconstituting quinceañera performance space -- Conclusion. Rights/rites and representation : reading Latinx social performance. |
| Awards |
Emily Toth Award, 2020 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Quinceañera (Social custom) -- United States.
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Quinceañera (Social custom) |
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United States. |
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Hispanic Americans -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
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Hispanic Americans -- Social life and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity. |
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Hispanic American consumers -- United States.
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Hispanic American consumers. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gonzalez, Rachel Valentina. Quinceañera style. First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019 9781477319680 (DLC) 2019008100 (OCoLC)1089841689 |
| ISBN |
9781477319703 (electronic book) |
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1477319700 (electronic book) |
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9781477319680 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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1477319689 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9781477319697 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1477319697 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Sudoc No. |
Z UA380.8 G589qu |
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