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The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity (review)

detail for minutes each. As a scholastic piece, the book’s significance is incredibly wide reaching. La Calle introduces key conceptual frames that can be dissected and re-situated for analysis between disciplines. The first three chapters alone introduce “barrioization,” boundary and border theory, as well as notions of space, place, racialization, “racial realignment,” diversity, whiteness, power, erasure, the “Anglo Fantasy Heritage,” and urban rehabilitation, and this list is by no means exhaustive. Otero’s text is as relevant to the beginning geography student as it is to a scholar of cultural anthropology. As an educational researcher and applied linguist, I find that Otero’s research offers valuable lessons in how spaces marked (and unmarked) by language serve as a proxy for racial and ethnic difference. Yet above all, La Calle warns of the subtle and not-so-subtle ways by which modernity, progress and order are socially constructed, and how these constructions affect how we publicly imagine histories that “count.” In the spirit of Kracauer, the streets—La Calle—have re-appeared, and thanks to Otero, their histories are back on screen.