Culture Clash Invades Miami

Oral Histories and Ethnography Center Stage

Bibliographic Data

ID2385254
AuthorsDavid G García (0000-0001-8322-9676, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Year2008
Volume14
Issue6
Pages865-895
Publication date2008-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800408318305
OpenAlexW2055678936
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited26

Using a critical race theory (CRT) framework, this article compares the playwriting methods of the Chicano-Latino theater trio, Culture Clash, to a counterstorytelling methodology. The author uncovers the tenets of a critical race theater in the trio's site-specific ethnographic play, Radio Mambo: Culture Clash Invades Miami. He argues that this performance art consciously challenges social and racial injustice by illuminating the lives and histories of diverse urban communities. Grounded in a Chicana/o teatro rasquache aesthetic, Culture Clash's theatrical ethnographies speak to a broad array of audiences about race, class, culture, gender, and identity

Aesthetics · Art · Critical race theory · Critical theory · Ethnography · Identity (music · Injustice · Miami · Political science · Race (biology · Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society