PAMM invites visitors to casually peruse these books in person in the Reading Room in the Kleh Gallery.

PAMM Education’s meticulously curated reading lists serve as a gateway to a deeper understanding of the exhibition, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in the rich ideas and concepts presented in Xican–a.o.x. Body.

The Xican–a.o.x. Body exhibition reading lists presented here relate to the themes that foreground the body as a site of political agency and imagination, existing within an “in-betweenness” of identities, artistic investigation, decolonization, and alternative forms of community examined throughout.

These lists were compiled by PAMM Education and Curatorial staff.

Xican- a.o.x. Body Selected Reading Room List, Chief Curator Gilbert R. Vicario

• Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands.
  Arturo J. Aldama , Chela Sandoval, and Peter J. García, eds.
• Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production. Dissident Acts.
  Leticia Alvarado.
• Born of Resistance: Cara a Cara Encounters with Chicana/o Visual Culture.
  Scott L. Baugh, and Victor A. Sorell, eds.
• Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata since the Sixties.
  Karen Mary Davalos.
• Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, Politics.
  Arlene Dávila.
• The Chicano Movement: Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century. New Directions in American History.
  Mario T. García, ed.
• Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s “Irreverent Apparition.” Chicana Matters Series.
  Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Alma López, eds.
• Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement.
  Rita Gonzalez, Howard N. Fox, and Chon A. Noriega.
• Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation.
  Richard Griswold del Castillo, Teresa McKenna, and Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, eds.
• Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity.
  José Esteban Muñoz.
• Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Cultural Studies of the Americas 2.
  José Esteban Muñoz.

Xican- a.o.x. Body Selected Reading Room List PAMM Education Department Selections

• Tradition and Transformation: Chicana/o Art from the 1970s through the 1990s
  Shifra Goldman (Author), Charlene Villasenor Black (Editor), Chon A. Noriega (Preface).
• Chicano Visions. American Painters on the Verge.
  Cheech Marin.
• Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
  Juan Gonzalez.
• ¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement.
  Maylei Blackwell.
• Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities.
  Laura E. Pérez.
• Lowriders Blast from the Past.
  Cathy Camper, and Raúl the Third.
• ¡Murales Rebeldes!: L.A. Chicana/o Murals Under Siege.
  Erin M. Curtis.
• Message to Aztlán: Selected Writings of Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales.
  Antonio Esquibel, ed.
• Speaking Chicana: Voice, Power, and Identity D.
  Letticia Galindo, María D. Gonzales.
• Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics
  Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, Frederick Luis Aldama.
• The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga
  José Antonio Burciaga, Mimi R. Gladstein, Daniel Chacón.
• Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings
  Alma M. Garcia, ed.
• The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlán
  Chon A. García, Genaro M. Padilla, and Laura E. Pérez, eds.
• Chicano-Chicana Americana: Pop Culture Pluralism Starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros
  Anthony Macías.
• Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics
  E. Carmen Ramos, Claudia Zapata, Terezita Romo, E. Carmen Ramos, and Ryan S. Hernández.
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States
  Paul Ortiz.

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Xican-a.o.x. Body

Xican-a.o.x. Body is the first major exhibition to showcase work by artists who foreground the body as a site of political agency and imagination, artistic investigation, decolonization, and alternative forms of community.