The University of Arizona Press
When: Friday, April 21, 2023, 3 p.m.
Where: University of Southern California, Taper Hall 420, 3501 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA
Anthony Macías will give a public lecture at USC titled: “An Actor Should Have No Frontiers, No Barriers”: Chicanas and Chicanos Surpassing Stereotypes in Theater, Film, and Television. This talk analyzes Latino-Latina representation by focusing on the careers of Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, Lupe Ontiveros, and Ricardo Montalban.
Macías’ book Chicano-Chicana Americana, explores American national character by showing how ethnic Mexicans attained social and cultural status through fair, open competition without a radical realignment of political or economic structures. Their creative achievements demanded dignity and earned respect. Anthony Macías argues that these performances demonstrated a pop culture pluralism that subtly changed mainstream America, transforming it from the mythological past of the Wild West to the speculative future of science fiction.
Anthony Macías is an associate professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of the book Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968. He has also published on bebop, hip hop, punk rock, Latin music, bandleader Gerald Wilson, Jewish Americans, U.S. historiography, Hollywood westerns, gay rights and Dog Day Afternoon, and the pan-American hemispheric imaginary.
