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Day of the Dead in the USA : the migration and transformation of a cultural phenomenon / Regina M. Marchi.

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"This updated edition of Day of the Dead in the USA is published in tandem with the 50th anniversary of the first Día de los Muertos celebrations in the US, when Chicano/a artists expanded the tradition north of the Border as a secular multi-media phenomenon. Comprised of public altar installa...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Marchi, Regina M., 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Latinidad.
Subjects:
All Souls' Day > United States.
United States > Social life and customs.
United States > Religious life and customs.
All Souls' Day.
Manners and customs.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • A multimedia communication phenomenon
  • An ancient and modern festival
  • Honoring the dead
  • Background on Day of the Dead in Europe and Latin America
  • Day of the Dead customs in Latin American countries
  • Central America
  • South America
  • Mexico's distinctive relationship with Day of the Dead
  • Folk and pop culture manifestations
  • Calavera imagery as social satire
  • Origins of Mexico's skull imagery
  • Mexican Calaveras in print and the birth of La Catrina
  • Day of the Dead and Mexican nationalism
  • Government campaigns and tourism
  • Day of the Dead in the United States
  • Mexican American All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day rituals
  • A Chicano tradition is born
  • Spiritual and political
  • Inventive traditions as Decolonial practice
  • Early Chicano Day of the Dead Celebrations
  • Chicano innovations
  • Impact and legacy
  • Negotiations over ownership
  • Ritual communication and community building
  • Imagined community
  • Communitas
  • Claims for public recognition
  • U.S. Day of the Dead as political communication : a moral economy
  • Remembering migrants
  • Remembering labor abuses : UFW and the Braceros
  • Remembering victims of gendered and homophobic violence
  • Remembering journalists and human rights
  • Remembering victims of war
  • Day of the Dead in the U.S. media : the celebration goes mainstream
  • Media attention for an underrepresented population
  • Media as publicity
  • Media coverage attracts financial support
  • Public validation for Latinx neighborhoods
  • Digital media
  • Movies as educational medium
  • Appeal, influence, and ownership
  • U.S. attitudes about death
  • From denial to acceptance of death
  • Widespread appeal and impact: adoption by Non-Latinx populations
  • Hybridity and debates around authenticity
  • The Commodification of Day of the Dead
  • Marketplace offerings
  • Made in China
  • Day of the Dead as marketing device
  • Day of the Dead as tourism and urban redevelopment
  • Nostalgia for the noncommercial days(of the dead)
  • McMuertos
  • Coco
  • Día de los Muertos Barbie
  • Commerce and culture: a long history together
  • Communicating through commodities
  • Agency, creativity, and intention
  • What we can learn from U.S. Day of the Dead celebrations.

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