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List Price: $16.95Amazon.com's Price: $12.54 You Save: $4.41 (26%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.86872073
EAN: 9781932595147
ISBN: 1932595147
Label: Feral House
Manufacturer: Feral House
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 239
Publication Date: October 01, 2006
Publisher: Feral House
Sales Rank: 526391
Studio: Feral House
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The powerful Chicano street-tough look-or cholo style-continues to become incorporated as a matter of pride in the fast-growing American Hispanic culture and, as reported by The New York Times, is now part of "the fashion vernacular of non-Latinos as well."
From his San Francisco home, author Reynaldo Berrios started Mi Vida Loca maga-zine in 1992 (nearly two years prior to the release of Allison Anders' movie of the same name) with ambitious goals: "I wanted vatos to get started on a peace treaty. I wanted for cholos to stop the drive-bys. I wanted for the mainstream to stop acting as if La Raza didn't exist. I wanted my people to have a voice and to be proud of our beliefs, our heroes, and our culture."
Cholo Style includes interviews and photographs obtained at great risk from gang members and underworld leaders throughout the state of California, plus intense, stylized line drawings from barrios, prisons, and low-rider cultural gatherings.
With over 150 photographs, illustrations, and letters, the sharply designed Cholo Style presents the fast-expanding Chicano barrio culture from its most authentic and street-credible perspective.
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What the others have said is true. This book downplays the oppression of Blacks and other minorities. There are a lot of typos and/or misspelled words; mostly in Spanish. For readers that don't understand Spanish, it may be hard reading the Spanglish, not just because there is Spanish, but misspelled Spanish. For example, if you wanted to look up words in a dictionary/translator, you may have a hard time finding the words that you are trying to look up because many of the Spanish words in this ... Read More
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I was disappointed in how this book was written. Very simple, limited vocabulary used. It also seemed like every chapter, no matter what the title, told the same story just worded differently.
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First of all the title of the book is a bit misleading.If youre expecting a fashion glossy,with poses of vatos looking all firme in pendletons, cascades and cortez this is not the book .
The style seems more of a reference to the mind set of the barrio.Even then this is an assumption on my part as its not very clear what the book is about ,apart from a very ignorant kind of race politics.Im all for the upliftment of oppressed races,and racial pride is absolutely important.However pride in ones ... Read More
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This young man has great energy and understands kids. Try remembering being one .. not as a Cholo but as any kid. Bored means destructive. Don't tell a kid what he/she shouldn't do .. focus on what they should do.
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I bought this book thinking it would have a positive message of unity from someone who's lived the life. Instead what I got was someone who seems to have spent one day too many in the streets, and one day too little working with people of all races who come from the same impoverished, violent background that he does, as opposed to just Chicanos.
I expected criticism of whites, as whites are more to blame than anyone for the colonialism mentioned in the book. But his insults toward ... Read More
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