ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA is Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches courses on barrio popular culture, border consciousness, lesbian literature and creative writing. She is the author of Chicana Art Inside/Outside the Master's House (Texas 98) and Sor Juana's Second Dream (New Mexico 99).

• PART I: A BARRIO ALTAR (ICONS & HEROES) A Chicana Hagiography for the 21st Century: Ana Castillo's Locas Santas; R.Alcalá The "Macho" Body as Social Malinche; G.S.Estrada In Search of the Authentic Pachuco: An Interpretive Essay; A.Madrid PART II: MYTHIC BARRIOS (CULTURAL MYTHS) Deconstructing the Mythical Homeland: México in Contemporary Chicana Performance; L.Gutiérrez A Poverty of Relations: On Not "Making Familia from Scratch," but Scratching Familia; R.Rodríguez 'Tanto Tiempo Disfrutamos': Chicanas and the Sexual Politics of Chicano Youth Culture in Los Angeles in the 1960s; D.Espinoza The Verse of the Godfather: Unwrapping Masculinity, Familia and Nationalism in Chicano Rap Discourse; R.T.Rodríguez PART III: BARRIO RITES (POPULA RITUALS) Revisiting the Chavez Ravine: Baseball, Urban Renewal and the Gendered Civic Culture of Postwar Los Angeles; E.Avila 'La Quinceañera': Making Gender and Ethnic Identities; K.M.Davalos Only Cauldrons Know the Secrets of Their Soups: Like Water for Chocolate; M.Segovia Cruising Through Low Rider Culture: Chicana/o Identity in the Marketing of Low Rider Magazine; D.M.Sandoval PART IV: BORDER BARRIOS ('A TRADITION OF LONG WALKS') Rights of Passage: From Cultural Schizophrenia to Border Consciousness in Cheech Marín's Born in East L.A.; A.Gaspar de Alba Gendered Bodies and Borders in Chicana/o Performance and Literature; S.Chávez-Silverman Lost in the Cinematic Landscape: Chicanas as Lloronas in Contemporary Film; D.R.Pérez PART V: VELVET BARRIOS (ESTE-REO-TIPOS/STEREOTYPES) Lupe's Song: On the Origins of Mexican/Woman Hating in the United States; D.J.González Resisting "Beauty" and Real Women Have Curves; M.P.Figueroa Out of the Fringe: Desire and Homosexuality in the '90s Latino Theatre; M.T.Marrero Velvet Malinche: Fantasies of "the" Aztec Princess in the Chicana/o Sexual Imagination; C.Rueda Esquibél