Luz Calvo
Biographic Data
| ID | 385531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luz Calvo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luz |
| FAMILY NAME | Calvo |
| SIGNATURE | CALVO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Ethnic Studies, 4099 Meiklejohn Hall, Cal State East Bay, Hayward, CA 94542, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0366-7145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies
Latina/os are currently the largest minority population in the United States. They are also one of the fastest growing. Yet, we have very limited research and understanding of their sexualities. Instead, stereotypical images flourish even though scholars have challenged the validity and narrowness of these images and the lack of attention to the larger social context. Gathering the latest empirical work in the social and behavioral sciences, this…
Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements: Decolonial Perspectives
Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's “Irreverent Apparition”
Racial fantasies and the primal scene of miscegenation
The primal scene, theorized by Freud in his case history of the Wolf Man, is a fantasy scenario thoroughly embedded in social relations. While pursuing his analysis of oedipal structures in the Wolf Man’s case history, Freud overlooked social relations, downplaying the importance of racial and class difference in the Wolf Man’s sexual etiology. In this essay, I trace the circulation of two fantasy structures: ‘the primal scene of miscegenation’ a…
Art comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma Lopez
Art Comes for the Archbishop
Inspired by the Chicana feminist artist Alma López's Our Lady (1999), this essay explores Chicana cultural and psychic investments in representations of the Virgin of Guadalupe. As an image of the suffering mother, the Virgin of Guadalupe is omnipresent in Mexican-American visual culture. Her image has been refigured by several generations of Chicana feminist artists, including Alma López. Chicana feminist reclaiming of the Virgin, however, has b…
Racial fantasies and the primal scene of miscegenation
The primal scene, theorized by Freud in his case history of the Wolf Man, is a fantasy scenario thoroughly embedded in social relations. While pursuing his analysis of oedipal structures in the Wolf Man’s case history, Freud overlooked social relations, downplaying the importance of racial and class difference in the Wolf Man’s sexual etiology. In this essay, I trace the circulation of two fantasy structures: ‘the primal scene of miscegenation’ a…
Art Comes for the Archbishop
Inspired by the Chicana feminist artist Alma López's Our Lady (1999), this essay explores Chicana cultural and psychic investments in representations of the Virgin of Guadalupe. As an image of the suffering mother, the Virgin of Guadalupe is omnipresent in Mexican-American visual culture. Her image has been refigured by several generations of Chicana feminist artists, including Alma López. Chicana feminist reclaiming of the Virgin, however, has b…
Art comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma Lopez
Art Comes for the Archbishop
Inspired by the Chicana feminist artist Alma López's Our Lady (1999), this essay explores Chicana cultural and psychic investments in representations of the Virgin of Guadalupe. As an image of the suffering mother, the Virgin of Guadalupe is omnipresent in Mexican-American visual culture. Her image has been refigured by several generations of Chicana feminist artists, including Alma López. Chicana feminist reclaiming of the Virgin, however, has b…
Racial fantasies and the primal scene of miscegenation
The primal scene, theorized by Freud in his case history of the Wolf Man, is a fantasy scenario thoroughly embedded in social relations. While pursuing his analysis of oedipal structures in the Wolf Man’s case history, Freud overlooked social relations, downplaying the importance of racial and class difference in the Wolf Man’s sexual etiology. In this essay, I trace the circulation of two fantasy structures: ‘the primal scene of miscegenation’ a…
Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's “Irreverent Apparition”
Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements: Decolonial Perspectives
Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies
Latina/os are currently the largest minority population in the United States. They are also one of the fastest growing. Yet, we have very limited research and understanding of their sexualities. Instead, stereotypical images flourish even though scholars have challenged the validity and narrowness of these images and the lack of attention to the larger social context. Gathering the latest empirical work in the social and behavioral sciences, this…
Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Archbishop (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works)