CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE: A Flight Formation

INTRODUCTION: Mapping the Chicano/a Art History of the Royal Chicano Air Force

CHAPTER 1. Building a Verbal-Visual Architecture: The RCAF’s New World Mestizo/a Art

CHAPTER 2. Performing La Mujer Nueva: Chicana “Art Work” in the RCAF

CHAPTER 3. Heroic Foundations: Chicano/a Heroes in Family, Farmwork, and War

CHAPTER 4. Between the Aesthetic and the Instrumental: Free Association, Collectivism, and Making Space for Chicano/a Art

CHAPTER 5. From Front to Force: The RCAF’s Air Force Persona and the Performance of an Archive

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX