Dr. Anthony J. Nocella II, scholar-activist, is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Salt Lake Community College. He is editor of the Peace Studies Journal, Director of Save the Kids, member of the DreamKeeperz Lowrider Club, and has published over forty books.

• Acknowledgments – Dedication – Frank Hernandez: Foreword – SelindaGuerrero: Preface – Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez/William A. Calvo-Quiros/Anthony J. Nocella II/Elizabeth G. Ramos: Introduction – John Ulloa: Cruising into the Classroom: Lowriding as a Pedagogical Practice – Ben Chappell: Aesthetics and the Battle for the Eastside: Google’s Lowrider, Chicano Park, and the Performance of Space – Daniel Osorio: East Side Hero – Xris Macias: Our Existence is Resistance – Lea Lani Kinikini/Marlena Wolfgramm: Maui the Lowrider: Healing the House of Trouble – Dionicio Miguel Garcia: Car Clubs to Cohorts – David Escobar: Lowriding as an Ancestral Healing Phenomena – Juan Roman-Medina: It’s Not a Hobby, It’s My Culture – Martín Morales Ramírez: El Campesino Project: Conciencia y las Raices de Tu Causa – ElizabethG. Ramos: Raza’s Membership in Lowrider Car Clubs – Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez: Lowriding Murals: Freeways, Automobiles and Mobility – Estella Inda/Kathryn Blackmer Reyes/Julia Curry Rodriguez: Exploring San José’s Lowrider Industries – Luis Alvarez: Afterword – Contributors’ Biographies.

“The Lowrider Studies Reader is a great introduction to the global, cultural, and political impact of lowriders. This inaugural book of the field shows how lowrider culture has both a liberatory effect for cholx, latinx, and chicanx communities while simultaneously being co-opted by oppressive cultures. This is a must read for anyone interested in the socio-political dynamics of lowrider culture.”—Dr. Lauralea Banks Edwards, Assistant Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness, SUNY Delhi