Exhibiting Mestizaje

Karen Mary Davalos is assistant professor of Chicana/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She won a Smithsonian Institution Latino Studies Fellowship in 2000.

. . . "Exhibiting Mestizaje" is a must-read for any cultural critic, art historian, or native ethnographer . . . Yit? contributes to the ongoing dialectic in a highly readable, theoretically sophisticated, often-brilliant text. ""Exhibiting Mestizaje" is a deliberate, well-developed book. The narrative is densely written but worth every effort to read with care." ""Exhibiting Mestizaje" is an important work and, because of Davalos's strong and sustained critique of Chicano nationalism, is also likely to be controversial. It offers both a rich, in-depth case study of a highly regarded Mexican cultural institution, the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago, and a critical study of Chicano/a art that recognizes the complex representational practices of people of Mexican descent. Davalos draws on different theoretical models from multiple disciplines. As a result, the book will undoubtedly make a lasting contribution to the field of museum research and studies, gender stidies, Chicano/a studies, cultural studies, and art history. . . Davalos has contributed a very important body of work in "Exhibiting Mestizaje."" "Davalos's exciting, nuanced study makes . . . significant contributions to the history of Chicano/a art. She provides an innovative new approach that circumvents traditional binary judgements of Chicano/a art as either folkloric or Marxist. . . ." ." . . "Exhibiting Mestizaje is a must-read for any cultural critic, art historian, or native ethnographer . . . [it] contributes to the ongoing dialectic in a highly readable, theoretically sophisticated, often-brilliant text."