The Royal Chicano Air Force produced major works of visual art; poetry; prose; music; and performance during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first. Materializing in Sacramento; California; in 1969 and established between 1970 and 1972; the RCAF helped redefine the meaning of artistic production and artwork to include community engagement projects such as breakfast programs; community art classes; and political and labor activism. The collectives work has contributed significantly both to Chicano/a civil rights activism and to Chicano/a art history; literature; and culture.Blending RCAF members biographies and accounts of their artistic production with art historical; cultural; and literary scholarship; Flying under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force is the first in-depth study of this vanguard Chicano/a arts collective and activist group. Ella Maria Diaz investigates how the RCAF questioned and countered conventions of Western art; from the canon taught in US institutions to Mexican national art history; while advancing a Chicano/a historical consciousness in the cultural borderlands. In particular; she demonstrates how women significantly contributed to the collectives output; navigating and challenging the overarching patriarchal cultural norms of the Chicano Movement and their manifestations in the RCAF. Diaz also shows how the RCAFs verbal and visual architecturemdash;a literal and figurative construction of Chicano/a signs; symbols; and textsmdash;established the groundwork for numerous theoretical interventions made by key scholars in the 1990s and the twenty-first century.
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