{"pk":37778,"title":"A Browner Shade of Buffalo: Music, Color, and Perception in Oscar Zeta Acosta's New Chicano Identity","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This essay reconsiders Acosta’s relationship to the 1960’s  counterculture by demonstrating the central role of psychedelic rock  music in \nThe Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo\n and in its vision  of Chicano identity. While scholars have long debated this question,  nearly all of this criticism sets up the counterculture and the emerging  Chicano movement in opposition and then seeks to determine to how  successfully Acosta’s novels break from the former in order to join the  latter. I will argue instead that the moments of rock music in the text,  and the transformative visions that accompany them, are the most  dramatic moments of what Ranciere calls \"the redistribution of the  sensible.\" The novel’s general interest in making hyper-visible the  importance of color and by extension the existence of the Chicano body,  furthermore, follow directly from Acosta legal strategy in defending the  East LA Thirteen to establish that the Chicano was incorrectly  classifed in official discourse as white.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Copyright","short_name":"Copyright","text":"","url":"https://escholarship.org/terms"},"keywords":[{"word":"Chicano, Race, American Literature, Music"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4394f4k4","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Alexei","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nowak","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2016-04-25T14:24:03+08:00","date_accepted":"2016-04-25T14:24:03+08:00","date_published":"2017-01-01T08:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/mester/article/37778/galley/28482/download/"}]}