BOOKS
From the Publisher
"The Other Side is a brilliant and breathtaking account of the new culture created by guerillas of El Salvador and performance artists of the feverish Tijuana, by young painters of graffiti in Los Angeles and rock'n'roll singers of Mexico City. It is a revealing, remarkable and timely book."--Ryszard Kapuscinski
To read some writings by Ruben Martinez click on the links below.
The New Americans Millennial L.A.
Title: Refried Elvis click here to buy
Author: Eric Zolov
Editorial reviews: "Eric Zolov's Refried Elvis is an innovative, perceptive and empirically rich contribution to the cultural history of transnationalism. It is also a work that focuses on an aspect of Mexican history that has been treated almost exclusively by writers and journalists and that had not made its mark in historical discussions until now. Mexican nationalist obsessions with historical roots - with the Revolution, the Conquest, and the saga of the mestizo - have too often coincided with the American and European penchant for emphasizing only what is exotic or quaint. The politics of the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s, with its ambivalent relation to Americanization, to modernization, and to indigenous societies provides an exemplary antidote to the tedious and seemingly interminable repetition of these hopelessly outdated national images."
Editorial reviews: "Eric Zolov's Refried Elvis is an innovative, perceptive and empirically rich contribution to the cultural history of transnationalism. It is also a work that focuses on an aspect of Mexican history that has been treated almost exclusively by writers and journalists and that had not made its mark in historical discussions until now. Mexican nationalist obsessions with historical roots - with the Revolution, the Conquest, and the saga of the mestizo - have too often coincided with the American and European penchant for emphasizing only what is exotic or quaint. The politics of the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s, with its ambivalent relation to Americanization, to modernization, and to indigenous societies provides an exemplary antidote to the tedious and seemingly interminable repetition of these hopelessly outdated national images."