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The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship

Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics

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  • © 2014

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  1. Ellie D. Hernández
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  2. Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson
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Part of the book series: Literatures of the Americas (LOA)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Ellie D. Hernández, Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson
    Pages 1-10

  3. Chapter 1 Dyad or Dialectic? Deconstructing Chicana/Latina Identity Politics

    • Alicia Gaspar de Alba
    Pages 11-37

  4. Chapter 2 Drag Racing the Neoliberal Circuit: Latina/o Camp and the Contingencies of Resistance

    • Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson
    Pages 39-62

  5. Chapter 3 Decolonial New Mexican@ Travels: Music, Weaving, Melancholia, and Redemption Or, “This is Where the Peasants Rise Up!”

    • Chela Sandoval, Peter J. García
    Pages 63-95

  6. Chapter 4 The Importance of the Heart in Chicana Artistry: Aesthetic Struggle, Aisthesis, “Freedom”

    • Juan D. Mah y Busch
    Pages 97-119

  7. Chapter 5 The Political Implications of Playing Hopefully: A Negotiation of the Present and the Utopic in Queer Theory and Latina Literature

    • Kristie Soares
    Pages 121-144

  8. Chapter 6 Cherríe Moraga’s Changing Consciousness of Solidarity

    • Araceli Esparza
    Pages 145-166

  9. Chapter 7 Revolutionary Love: Bridging Differential Terrains of Empire

    • Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson
    Pages 167-189

  10. Chapter 8 The Postmodern Mo(nu)ment: An Analysis of Citizenship, Representation, and Monuments in Three Acts

    • Ella Maria Diaz
    Pages 191-210

  11. Chapter 9 Sucking Vulnerability: Neoliberalism, the Chupacabras, and the Post-Cold War Years

    • William A. Calvo-Quirós
    Pages 211-233

  12. Chapter 10 Pictures of Resistance: Recasting Labor and Immigration in the Global City

    • Irene Mata
    Pages 235-255

  13. Erratum to: Sucking Vulnerability: Neoliberalism, the Chupacabras, and the Post-Cold War Years

    • William A. Calvo-Quirós
    Pages E1-E2

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 253-273
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About this book

Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media.

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"In their very readable collection The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics and Aesthetics, Hernandez and Rodriguez y Gibson have compiled a list of scholars who are innovative thinkers, insightful academicians, and passionate writers unafraid to examine, to rethink the shifting and fluidity of what is meant, or not, by Latinidad. They discuss our complicated cultural currency from past to potential, traveling from the academic theory to everyday politics, from literature to media, holding together complete oppositions while reexamining their useful convergences. As an artist, I feel I can finally read theoretical frameworks that make sense to me, that excite me, that discomfort me, that reclaim a language ripe with metaphor and realm of cultural power. This collection should be on the bookshelf of every scholar and artist whose has been given the task - whether in art as in theory - to decolonize the imaginary, one word at a time." - Helena María Viramontes, Professor of English, Cornell University, USA

About the authors

Alicia Gaspar de Alba, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Peter J. García, California State University, Northridge, USA Chela Sandoval, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Juan D. Mah y Busch, Loyola Marymount University, USA Kristie Soares, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Araceli Esparza, California State University, Long Beach, USA Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson, University of Texas , San Antonio, USA Ella Maria Diaz, Cornell University, USA William A. Calvo, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Irene Mata, Wellesley College, USA

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