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- Title
Productos Latinos: Latino Business Murals, Symbolism, and the Social Enactment of Identity in Greater Los Angeles.
- Authors
CORRELL, TIMOTHY CORRIGAN
- Abstract
This article examines the Latino occupational tradition of adorning workplaces with murals featuring ludic, sentimental, and religious iconography. It explores the emergent and recurrent meanings of this collectively shared symbolism as it relates to humor, group remembrance, the expression of visual piety, vandalism, and municipal regulation. In particular, it focuses on how these artistic forms inspire the expression, negotiation, and renewal o f individual and group identity through social interactions.
- Subjects
LOS Angeles (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; MURAL art; ETHNIC identity of Hispanic Americans; STREET art; MURALISTS; PUBLIC art; HISPANIC American business enterprises
- Publication
Journal of American Folklore, 2014, Vol 127, Issue 505, p285
- ISSN
0021-8715
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.5406/jamerfolk.127.505.0285