{"id":1121,"date":"2020-09-21T10:44:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2024-10-27T08:16:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T15:16:51","slug":"vivitos-y-coleando-the-cultural-politics-of-the-paisa-periphery-by-prof-adrian-felix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/vivitos-y-coleando-the-cultural-politics-of-the-paisa-periphery-by-prof-adrian-felix\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Vivitos y Coleando\u2019: The Cultural Politics of the Paisa Periphery, by Prof. Adri\u00e1n F\u00e9lix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Adri\u00e1n F\u00e9lix published a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/boomcalifornia.com\/2020\/09\/16\/vivitos-y-coleando-the-cultural-politics-of-the-paisa-periphery\/\">review<\/a><\/strong> of <em>Charros: How Mexican Cowboys are Remapping Race and American Identity<\/em>, by Laura Barraclough. Excerpt below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Octavio Paz once wrote about the <em>zacatecano\u00a0<\/em>poet Ram\u00f3n L\u00f3pez Velarde that \u201cirony is his rein and the adjective his spur.\u201d Not so for Barraclough, who is more of a straight shooter; her writing is neither flowery nor poetic, careful not to over-stretch\u00a0<em>charro<\/em>\u00a0metaphors in her prose. However, my main critique of this book is not in its form but rather in its method. True to her formation as a geographer, Barraclough opens the conclusion by stating: \u201cHover over virtually any city in the U.S. West using the satellite view of a web mapping service, and you will almost certainly spot the distinctive keyhole shape of at least one lienzo charro\u201d (196). Her argument about \u201cplace-making\u201d, \u201cvernacular spaces\u201d and \u201cranchero landscapes\u201d on the \u201cmetropolitan fringe\u201d is an important one, as \u201clienzos offer an important space for cultural affirmation and transnational collectivity\u201d (196) and an \u201cinvocation of a shared rural Mexican ranching past left behind\u201d (197). As is the central argument that positions\u00a0<em>charros<\/em>\u00a0as the \u201coriginal cowboys\u201d: \u201cAsserting the historic presence of ethnic Mexican ranchers and vaqueros as the \u2018original cowboys\u2019 in the region that became the U.S. Southwest, they have transformed core narratives of American identity centered on the cowboy, ranching, and the rodeo\u201d (200). Yet for all her focus on \u201cscalar dynamics\u201d and \u201cscaling up\u201d, it would behoove Barraclough to descend from the bird\u2019s eye view, and the historic \u201clong view\u201d, and\u00a0<em>scale down<\/em>. It is the task of the ethnographer to, as\u00a0<em>charros<\/em>\u00a0put it, \u201c<em>entrarle al ruedo<\/em>\u201d (\u201center the rodeo ring\u201d), with all of the political ethics that implies, plunging into the depths of the\u00a0<em>paisano<\/em>\u00a0periphery. This, however, would require oral histories and deep ethnography, something Barraclough entirely avoids. Those who are up to the task will find charros not as long-gone historical figures but as living, breathing, flesh-and-bone denizens of the\u00a0<em>paisano<\/em>\u00a0periphery, with all of our contradictions, as the charro adage goes,\u00a0<em>vivitos y coleando<\/em>. Alive and bull-tailing.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full review <a href=\"https:\/\/boomcalifornia.com\/2020\/09\/16\/vivitos-y-coleando-the-cultural-politics-of-the-paisa-periphery\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. Photo courtesy of Al Rendon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Adri\u00e1n F\u00e9lix published a review of Charros: How Mexican Cowboys are Remapping Race and American Identity, by Laura Barraclough. Excerpt below: Octavio Paz once wrote about the zacatecano\u00a0poet Ram\u00f3n L\u00f3pez Velarde that \u201cirony is his rein and the adjective his spur.\u201d Not so for Barraclough, who is more of a straight shooter; her writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news","tag-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}