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- Title
ABJECTION AND THE CINEMATIC CHOLO THE CHICANO GANG STEREOTYPE IN SOCIOHISTORIC CONTEXT.
- Authors
Mora, Richard
- Abstract
In this brief research note, the author uses a sociohistoric lens to examine selected films that have employed the cholo, or Chicano gang member, stereotype. He finds that the cholo is a prevalent archetype of Mexican and Mexican American youth. The author argues that the depiction of the cholo as a hypermasculine, abject personage threatening the social order converges with how actual Latino youth are constructed in sociopolitical and media discourses--as both marginalized young men and migrants unworthy of membership in U.S. society.
- Subjects
STEREOTYPES in motion pictures; ABJECTION in motion pictures; HISPANIC Americans in motion pictures; MEXICAN Americans in motion pictures; SOCIOHISTORICAL analysis; YOUTH in motion pictures; ARCHETYPE (Psychology) in motion pictures
- Publication
Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies, 2011, Vol 5, Issue 2, p124
- ISSN
1931-9045
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3149/thy.0502.124