Creating Aztlán : Chicano art, indigenous sovereignty, and lowriding across Turtle Island

Aztlán is the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. Believed to be located somewhere in northwestern Mexico or the southwestern United States, it is mentioned in many colonial ethnohistorical chronicles of the migration of the Mexica people to central Mexico. Creating Aztlán is an interdisciplinary text that considers the pivotal role this ancestral land has played in Chicano and Indigenous art and culture in the United States. Dylan A. T. Miner deploys indigenous methodologies to analyze works by Nora Chapa Mendoza, Gilbert "Magú" Luján, Santa Barraza, Malaquías Montoya, Carlos Cortéz Koyokuikatl, Favianna Rodríguez, and Dignidad Rebelde (which includes Melanie Cervantes and Jesús Barraza), to ultimately assert that their visualizations of Aztlán are a form of Indigenous sovereignty.