The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship

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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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.

• aesthetics
• culture
• essay
• identity
• migration
• time

"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

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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