Curtis Marez
Biographic Data
| ID | 760116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Curtis Marez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Curtis |
| FAMILY NAME | Marez |
| SIGNATURE | MAREZ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cannaboom
Encouraged by state requirements for prepackaging, Black and Latinx producers and distributors of legal cannabis in California have developed novel, symbolically and socially significant forms of marketing. Black and Latinx cannabis industries have developed their own “commodity aesthetics,” using product packaging, live events, and social media to entice buyers with a combination of beautiful sights, smells, textures, signs, and symbols that rep…
TV News and the Origins of Black Studies and Ethnic Studies
The Future in the Present, or When Cages Crumble
The Future in the Present, or When Cages Crumble Curtis Marez (bio) By centering Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige reminds me of the genre of American studies writing that imagines different kinds of ancestors for the field. In American Studies in a Moment of Danger (2001), George Lipsitz drew on what he called “the other American Studies,” naming C. L. R. James, Duke Ellington, Américo Paredes, and, yes, Grace Lee Boggs.1 Several years before Lip…
Octavia E. Butler, After the Chicanx Movement
The following reflections on my recent study of a small portion of the Octavia E. Butler Collection at the Huntington are informed by my first visit to the library and its famous gardens. While in
Ronald Reagan, the College Movie
Seeing in the Red
Seeing in the Red:Looking at Student Debt Curtis Marez (bio) Currently exceeding $1 trillion, federal student debt in the United States has surpassed credit card debt, emerging as a brutal force of domination in contemporary universities and beyond.1 As Jeffrey J. Williams argues, student debt "is not just a mode of finance but of mode of pedagogy." It teaches that "higher education is a consumer service"; that career choices should be tailored t…
Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection
Marez’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection,” which finds in Chavez’s store of graphics, photos, films, and videos from the 1940s to the 1990s evidence of farm workers’ appropriation of visual technologies to project social alternatives to the patriarchal white capitalism of agribusiness corporations. “Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection” is available on the Scalar platform at http://dx.doi.org/10.1215…
Obama’s BlackBerry, or This Is Not a Technology of Destruction
A Note About the Cover
A Note About the Cover Curtis Marez [View Cover Image] The cover for this issue, designed by Bill Longhauser, incorporates images of a young Eva Ybarra from her personal collection. Ybarra is a San Antonio musician and conjunto leader who is featured in the traveling exhibit entitled “American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music,” sponsored by Seattle’s Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum and guest curated by Marisol Berríos Miranda,…
What Is a Disaster
The Homies in Silicon Valley
Research Article| October 01 2006 The Homies in Silicon Valley: Figuring Styles of Life and Work in the Information Age Curtis Marez Curtis Marez Curtis Marez, an associate professor in the Critical Studies Department of the School of Cinema/TV and the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, is author of Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and…
Confronting Dominant Institutions of Representation, or Media Studies at the Current Conjuncture
Book Review| October 01 2005 Confronting Dominant Institutions of Representation, or Media Studies at the Current Conjuncture Heroes, Lovers, and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood, Clara E. Rodríguez.Reversing the Lens: Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality through Film, Jun Xin and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. Curtis Marez Curtis Marez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 25 (1): …
Aliens and Indians
Building upon the insights of Indian media-makers and critics, this article considers the ways in which science fiction about alien abduction incorporates and transforms histories of Indian slavery. Specifically, it historicizes science fiction in relationship to Indian slavery to explore its implications for contemporary demographic, political and cultural transformations. Narratives of encounter and conquest in Hollywood films such as Contact (…
Subaltern Soundtracks
This essay suggests that the postrevolutionary Mexican presence in Los Angeles profoundly influenced the emergence and consolidation of film and other media there. In the 1930s, Anglo Americans and Mexicans were in conflict and competition over how to use new forms of audio mass media such as radio and sound films. Mexican movie programmers and audiences in Los Angeles appropriated early sound films in ways that addressed immigrant concerns and c…
Signifying Spain, Becoming Comanche, Making Mexicans
SINCE AT LEAST THE 1960S, MANY CHICANAS/OS HAVE ENGAGED IN A KIND OF ideological archeology, attempting to reconstruct genealogical relationships between their present and a distant pre-Columbian past. 1 Just as certain African American nationalists turned toward Egypt for cultural cues, in recent decades Chicana/o intellectuals and cultural producers have looked to ancient Indian civilizations for inspiration. 2 One of the most famous examples i…
Brown
The Coquero in Freud
Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. In my last severe depression I took coca again and a small dose lifted me to the heights in a wonderful fashion. I am just now busy collecting the literature for a song of praise to this magical substance
Seeing in the Red
Seeing in the Red:Looking at Student Debt Curtis Marez (bio) Currently exceeding $1 trillion, federal student debt in the United States has surpassed credit card debt, emerging as a brutal force of domination in contemporary universities and beyond.1 As Jeffrey J. Williams argues, student debt "is not just a mode of finance but of mode of pedagogy." It teaches that "higher education is a consumer service"; that career choices should be tailored t…
Signifying Spain, Becoming Comanche, Making Mexicans
SINCE AT LEAST THE 1960S, MANY CHICANAS/OS HAVE ENGAGED IN A KIND OF ideological archeology, attempting to reconstruct genealogical relationships between their present and a distant pre-Columbian past. 1 Just as certain African American nationalists turned toward Egypt for cultural cues, in recent decades Chicana/o intellectuals and cultural producers have looked to ancient Indian civilizations for inspiration. 2 One of the most famous examples i…
The Homies in Silicon Valley
Research Article| October 01 2006 The Homies in Silicon Valley: Figuring Styles of Life and Work in the Information Age Curtis Marez Curtis Marez Curtis Marez, an associate professor in the Critical Studies Department of the School of Cinema/TV and the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, is author of Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and…
Octavia E. Butler, After the Chicanx Movement
The following reflections on my recent study of a small portion of the Octavia E. Butler Collection at the Huntington are informed by my first visit to the library and its famous gardens. While in
What Is a Disaster
Brown
The Coquero in Freud
Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. In my last severe depression I took coca again and a small dose lifted me to the heights in a wonderful fashion. I am just now busy collecting the literature for a song of praise to this magical substance
Brown
Signifying Spain, Becoming Comanche, Making Mexicans
SINCE AT LEAST THE 1960S, MANY CHICANAS/OS HAVE ENGAGED IN A KIND OF ideological archeology, attempting to reconstruct genealogical relationships between their present and a distant pre-Columbian past. 1 Just as certain African American nationalists turned toward Egypt for cultural cues, in recent decades Chicana/o intellectuals and cultural producers have looked to ancient Indian civilizations for inspiration. 2 One of the most famous examples i…
Aliens and Indians
Building upon the insights of Indian media-makers and critics, this article considers the ways in which science fiction about alien abduction incorporates and transforms histories of Indian slavery. Specifically, it historicizes science fiction in relationship to Indian slavery to explore its implications for contemporary demographic, political and cultural transformations. Narratives of encounter and conquest in Hollywood films such as Contact (…
Subaltern Soundtracks
This essay suggests that the postrevolutionary Mexican presence in Los Angeles profoundly influenced the emergence and consolidation of film and other media there. In the 1930s, Anglo Americans and Mexicans were in conflict and competition over how to use new forms of audio mass media such as radio and sound films. Mexican movie programmers and audiences in Los Angeles appropriated early sound films in ways that addressed immigrant concerns and c…
Confronting Dominant Institutions of Representation, or Media Studies at the Current Conjuncture
Book Review| October 01 2005 Confronting Dominant Institutions of Representation, or Media Studies at the Current Conjuncture Heroes, Lovers, and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood, Clara E. Rodríguez.Reversing the Lens: Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality through Film, Jun Xin and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. Curtis Marez Curtis Marez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 25 (1): …
The Homies in Silicon Valley
Research Article| October 01 2006 The Homies in Silicon Valley: Figuring Styles of Life and Work in the Information Age Curtis Marez Curtis Marez Curtis Marez, an associate professor in the Critical Studies Department of the School of Cinema/TV and the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, is author of Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and…
Obama’s BlackBerry, or This Is Not a Technology of Destruction
A Note About the Cover
A Note About the Cover Curtis Marez [View Cover Image] The cover for this issue, designed by Bill Longhauser, incorporates images of a young Eva Ybarra from her personal collection. Ybarra is a San Antonio musician and conjunto leader who is featured in the traveling exhibit entitled “American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music,” sponsored by Seattle’s Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum and guest curated by Marisol Berríos Miranda,…
What Is a Disaster
Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection
Marez’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection,” which finds in Chavez’s store of graphics, photos, films, and videos from the 1940s to the 1990s evidence of farm workers’ appropriation of visual technologies to project social alternatives to the patriarchal white capitalism of agribusiness corporations. “Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection” is available on the Scalar platform at http://dx.doi.org/10.1215…
Seeing in the Red
Seeing in the Red:Looking at Student Debt Curtis Marez (bio) Currently exceeding $1 trillion, federal student debt in the United States has surpassed credit card debt, emerging as a brutal force of domination in contemporary universities and beyond.1 As Jeffrey J. Williams argues, student debt "is not just a mode of finance but of mode of pedagogy." It teaches that "higher education is a consumer service"; that career choices should be tailored t…
Ronald Reagan, the College Movie
Octavia E. Butler, After the Chicanx Movement
The following reflections on my recent study of a small portion of the Octavia E. Butler Collection at the Huntington are informed by my first visit to the library and its famous gardens. While in
The Future in the Present, or When Cages Crumble
The Future in the Present, or When Cages Crumble Curtis Marez (bio) By centering Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige reminds me of the genre of American studies writing that imagines different kinds of ancestors for the field. In American Studies in a Moment of Danger (2001), George Lipsitz drew on what he called “the other American Studies,” naming C. L. R. James, Duke Ellington, Américo Paredes, and, yes, Grace Lee Boggs.1 Several years before Lip…
Cannaboom
Encouraged by state requirements for prepackaging, Black and Latinx producers and distributors of legal cannabis in California have developed novel, symbolically and socially significant forms of marketing. Black and Latinx cannabis industries have developed their own “commodity aesthetics,” using product packaging, live events, and social media to entice buyers with a combination of beautiful sights, smells, textures, signs, and symbols that rep…
TV News and the Origins of Black Studies and Ethnic Studies
Sociology (14 works) · Art (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Art history (9 works) · History (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · History (5 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (5 works)