Narcocorridos: Mexican Immigrant Women and Chicano Youth Identities (1970s to Present)

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dc.contributorHernandez, David
dc.contributorMoretti, Erica
dc.contributor.advisorMosby, Dorothy
dc.contributor.authorValle Ramirez, Obdulia
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-06T19:32:16Z
dc.date.available2015-04-06T19:32:16Z
dc.date.gradyear2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015-04-06
dc.description.abstractThe narcocorrido is a popular genre of music that has crystallized with the formation of the narcocultura or drug culture, caused by the US-Mexican drug war. I examine the formation of the narcocorrido from the 1940s onward through the social-historical context of US anti-immigrant laws. I argue that the narcocorrido, as a form of popular music, captures Mexican immigrant women’s and Chicano youth’s identities in order to appropriate US conceptions of their “illegality,” as a way to defy US authorities. To show how the narcocorrido captures Mexican immigrant women and Chicano youth, I analyze the construction of these identities through US anti-immigrant laws that have caused the social “illegalization” of these two identities. Also, I analyze how the transformed gender roles of Mexican immigrant women and Chicano youth criminality are presented in the narcocorrido through mujeres bravas and the narcotraficante. I use a multidisciplinary approach for this thesis including: transnationalism, popular culture, historical analysis, social-political analysis regarding US immigration laws, and close readings of narcocorridos. This thesis goes against the idea that narcocorridos are created to encourage criminality. Instead, I propose that narcocorridos are created to both historicize the US-Mexican drug war and to celebrate Mexican “illegality” as a way for Chicano youth and Mexican immigrant women to heal from the constant marginalization of their identities in US society.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSpanish, Latina/o, & Latin American Studiesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10166/3625
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rights.restrictedrestricteden_US
dc.subjectNarcocorridosen_US
dc.subjectillegalityen_US
dc.subjectNarcoculturaen_US
dc.subjectChicano youthen_US
dc.subjectUS-Mexican drug waren_US
dc.subjectmujeres bravasen_US
dc.subjectnarcotraficanteen_US
dc.subjectMexican immigrant womenen_US
dc.subjectgenderen_US
dc.titleNarcocorridos: Mexican Immigrant Women and Chicano Youth Identities (1970s to Present)en_US
dc.typeThesis
mhc.degreeUndergraduateen_US
mhc.institutionMount Holyoke College

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